Gender differences in home care clients and admission to long-term care in Ontario, Canada: A population-based retrospective cohort study

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Gruneir, Andrea ^a,b,c,d   Forrester, Jacqueline ^b   Camacho, Ximena ^b   Gill, Sudeep S ^b,e   Bronskill, Susan E ^b,c  

^a WOMEN S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^e QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Home care; Informal care; Long term care placement; Nursing homes; Older men; Older women; Transitions

Indexed keywords

AGED; CANADA; COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; ONTARIO; PATIENT ADMISSION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84878858394     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-13-48     Document Type: Article

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