The immediate and subsequent outcomes of nursing home care

M.A. Lewis, R.L. Kane, S. Cretin and V. Clark

American Journal of Public Health, 1985, vol. 75, issue 7, 758-762

Abstract: To determine the relationship between admission status and subsequent outcomes, 563 patients discharged during 1980 from 24 nursing homes were followed through 1982. Only 28% of patients were discharged to their homes. Reconstructed life histories of 529 discharges for the two-year follow-up revealed only 38 persons (7.2%) were alive and at home; of these, 36 had been initially discharged to their homes. Four hundred and one persons (75.8%) were dead. Mental orientation, urinary continence, functional status, hip fracture, and diagnoses associated with dementia were found to be significant predictors of outcome status after discharge and at follow-up. Social support had only a modest effect on the former outcomes.

Date: 1985
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