Title |
A European study investigating patterns of transition from home care towards institutional dementia care: the protocol of a RightTimePlaceCare study
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Published in |
BMC Public Health, January 2012
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-12-68 |
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Authors |
Hilde Verbeek, Gabriele Meyer, Helena Leino-Kilpi, Adelaida Zabalegui, Ingalill Rahm Hallberg, Kai Saks, Maria Eugenia Soto, David Challis, Dirk Sauerland, Jan PH Hamers, the RightTimePlaceCare Consortium |
Abstract |
Health care policies in many countries aim to enable people with dementia to live in their own homes as long as possible. However, at some point during the disease the needs of a significant number of people with dementia cannot be appropriately met at home and institutional care is required. Evidence as to best practice strategies enabling people with dementia to live at home as long as possible and also identifying the right time to trigger admission to a long-term nursing care facility is therefore urgently required. The current paper presents the rationale and methods of a study generating primary data for best-practice development in the transition from home towards institutional nursing care for people with dementia and their informal caregivers. The study has two main objectives: 1) investigate country-specific factors influencing institutionalization and 2) investigate the circumstances of people with dementia and their informal caregivers in eight European countries. Additionally, data for economic evaluation purposes are being collected. |
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Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United States | 2 | 67% |
Unknown | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 3 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Portugal | 1 | <1% |
Canada | 1 | <1% |
Iceland | 1 | <1% |
Spain | 1 | <1% |
United States | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 220 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Master | 46 | 20% |
Researcher | 38 | 17% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 31 | 14% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 19 | 8% |
Student > Bachelor | 15 | 7% |
Other | 41 | 18% |
Unknown | 35 | 16% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Nursing and Health Professions | 50 | 22% |
Medicine and Dentistry | 43 | 19% |
Social Sciences | 26 | 12% |
Psychology | 20 | 9% |
Computer Science | 8 | 4% |
Other | 29 | 13% |
Unknown | 49 | 22% |