Long term care of AIDS patients.
Institutional long term care (LTC) can be important for AIDS patients because they frequently survive acute illness episodes yet remain severely incapacitated. Many of them are also homeless, or their families or friends are unwilling or unable to care for them. In three years of providing LTC for AIDS patients, staff at Coler Memorial Hospital in New York City have learned that accommodating the patients' fluctuating care needs is one of the program's greatest challenges. Some differences from other chronic care programs are the patients' needs for medically intensive services, their more frequent contagious infections, and their experimental drug regimens.
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Social Services and Discharge Planning, Coler Memorial Hospital, New York, New York 10044.
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D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000191:economics / Q000451:nursing / Q000628:therapy*; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006757:Hospital Units / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006773:Hospitals, Municipal / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009519:New York City; D010166:Palliative Care; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D012944:Social Support; D012948:Social Work Department, Hospital