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Long-term care for the elderly : a factbook / David L. Robin, Patricia Stockton.
LIBRA RA564.8 .R33 1987
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rabin, David.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Older people--Long-term care--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Older people.
- Older people--Long-term care.
- United States.
- Older people--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Health Services for the Aged.
- Long-Term Care.
- Aged.
- Medical Subjects:
- Health Services for the Aged.
- United States.
- Long-Term Care.
- Aged.
- Genre:
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 248 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.
- Summary:
- This book is therefore designed as a concise reference source of national data relevant to long-term care. Information on legislation, regulation, and recent policy issues accompanies summary statistics from published and unpublished censuses and surveys. Topic areas include population growth and change, mortality, morbidity and functional disability rates, family structure, dependency ratios and income, health care expenditures and utilization, and growth and change in the nursing home sector. Reflecting a recent policy shift in favor of home and community-based research and initiatives in long-term care, and a section on international comparisons gives a perspective on the long-term care policies of other industrialized countries.
- Notes:
- "Funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 019504102X
- 0195041062
- OCLC:
- 14587461
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