Predictors of Mortality in a Disabled and Elderly Population Receiving Domiciliarly Based Services
Predictors of mortality were evaluated after a period of 26 months for 218 persons receiving domiciliary nursing and/or domiciliary assistance. They were living in Posio, a rural commune in northern Finland. Twenty-six (12%) persons died during the follow-up of 26 months. The prospects for survival...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/140349488401200106 2023-05-15T17:42:24+02:00 Predictors of Mortality in a Disabled and Elderly Population Receiving Domiciliarly Based Services Kivelä, Sirkka-Liisa 1984 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/140349488401200106 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/140349488401200106 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine volume 12, issue 1, page 31-37 ISSN 0300-8037 Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health journal-article 1984 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/140349488401200106 2022-04-14T04:52:25Z Predictors of mortality were evaluated after a period of 26 months for 218 persons receiving domiciliary nursing and/or domiciliary assistance. They were living in Posio, a rural commune in northern Finland. Twenty-six (12%) persons died during the follow-up of 26 months. The prospects for survival were slightly poorer among the persons with a poor physical mobility and among those living together with their spouse, and slightly better for those persons who lived alone as compared with persons living with another person or persons. The predictions of mortality among long-term home-care patients seemed not to be the same as those of the institutionalized aged population. The findings warrant further research in this respect. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Finland Posio SAGE Publications (via Crossref) Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine 12 1 31 37 |
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Predictors of mortality were evaluated after a period of 26 months for 218 persons receiving domiciliary nursing and/or domiciliary assistance. They were living in Posio, a rural commune in northern Finland. Twenty-six (12%) persons died during the follow-up of 26 months. The prospects for survival were slightly poorer among the persons with a poor physical mobility and among those living together with their spouse, and slightly better for those persons who lived alone as compared with persons living with another person or persons. The predictions of mortality among long-term home-care patients seemed not to be the same as those of the institutionalized aged population. The findings warrant further research in this respect. |
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