Making choices: How older people living in independent living units decide to enter the acute care system

International Journal of Nursing Practice

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 52-57

  Cheek, Julianne ^a   Ballantyne, Alison ^a   Roder Allen, Gerda ^b   Jones, Jacqueline ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Country Home Advocacy Project ^*  (Australia)

^c Australian Nursing Federation (SA branch)   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acute care system; Decision making; Older people; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AUSTRALIA; COOPERATION; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HOME FOR THE AGED; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY; HUMANS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 18244377422     PISSN: 13227114     EISSN: 1440172X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-172X.2005.00502.x     Document Type: Article

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