Partnership nursing home care for dementia: the Glasgow experience—one-year follow-up

✍ Scribed by Donald Lyons; Mark Cohen; Tom Henderson; Nick Walker

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 68 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0885-6230
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1166(199708)12:8<838::aid-gps651>3.0.co;2-a

✦ Synopsis

The outcome of the transfer of 60 elderly patients suering from dementia from hospital to nursing home care under a partnership contract was reviewed at 6 and 12 months following transfer. The nursing home population had fared badly compared with patients remaining in hospital during the ®rst 3 months. This dierence was less evident at 6 months follow-up and had disappeared at 12 months follow-up. It seems that a partnership agreement such as this can deliver a quality of health care at least as good as hospital treatment as long the transfer is handled carefully.