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Community needs assessment for nursing homes: a Taiwan study
1University of Tennessee, Knoxville 37996-4180, USA.
Abstract:
The assessment of nursing home needs is becoming an important research endeavor because of the rapid social changes in the past 20 to 30 years in Taiwan. The purpose of this article is to present the methodology, as well as the results of a nursing home community needs assessment. A cross-sectional descriptive study using a mailed questionnaire was conducted. The results indicated low awareness level, low personal experience, high service needs, and high potential for use of nursing home services among the individuals living in 10 surveyed towns (N = 319).
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