Home nursing and home help for dementia patients: Predictors for utilization and expected quality from a family caregiver's point of view

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 233-238

  Graessel, Elmar ^a   Luttenberger, Katharina ^a   Bleich, Stefan ^b   Adabbo, Raffaela ^a   Donath, Carolin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dementia; Home help service; Professional home nursing; Utilization of home nursing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CAREGIVERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HOME CARE SERVICES; HOME NURSING; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 79751535453     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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