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Assessment of Dependence in Activities of Daily Living Among Older Patients in an Acute Care Unit
Published on: September 30, 2020
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1Eastern Wiltshire Services, Kingshill Research Centre in Swindon.
Abstract:
The government's plan to free beds in the acute sector by discharging elderly people from hospital into private nursing homes are ill-thought out and a poor response to a complex problem. Older people may come to fear admission to hospital, seeing it as a prelude to being put in a home. Greater investment in community services would be the best hope of appropriate care for many older people. The government should have the need for hospital-based services for older people in the next three years and aim for a corresponding increase in good community services.
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