Home care patients in four Nordic capitals - Predictors of nursing home admission during one-year followup

Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 11-18

  Sørbye, Liv W ^a   Hamran, Torunn ^b   Henriksen, Nils ^b   Norberg, Astrid ^b,c,d  

^a Diakonhjemmet   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d Ersta Skondal University College   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aged; Care burden; Comprehensive assessment; Cross sectional study; Home care; Level of care; Nordic; RAI; Self rated health

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954585326     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11782390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/jmdh.s8979     Document Type: Article

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