Emergency ambulance service involvement with residential care homes in the support of older people with dementia: An observational study

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Amador, Sarah ^a   Goodman, Claire ^a   King, Derek ^b   Machen, Ina ^a   Elmore, Natasha ^c   Mathie, Elspeth ^a   Iliffe, Steve ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aged; Care homes; Dementia; Emergency medical services; Health services for the aged; Longitudinal

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMBULANCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEMENTIA; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROCEDURES; RESIDENTIAL HOME; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULANCES; DEMENTIA; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES;

EID: 84906965164     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-14-95     Document Type: Article

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