Caregivers' Reasons for Nursing Home Placement: Clues for Improving Discussions With Families Prior to the Transition | Zendy

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Caregivers' Reasons for Nursing Home Placement: Clues for Improving Discussions With Families Prior to the Transition

Author(s) -

Gwendolen T. Buhr,

Maragatha Kuchibhatla,

Elizabeth C. Clipp

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

the gerontologist

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.524

H-Index - 138

eISSN - 1758-5341

pISSN - 0016-9013

DOI - 10.1093/geront/46.1.52

Subject(s) - nursing homes , transition (genetics) , nursing , psychology , medicine , biochemistry , chemistry , gene

This study identifies the relative importance of reasons for institutionalization endorsed by caregivers of patients with dementia; examines the relationship between caregivers' reasons for institutionalization and indicators of caregiver and patient physical and emotional functioning measured in the prior year; and compares, on these indicators, caregivers who institutionalized their care recipients with caregivers who did not.

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