Institutional care among 70-year-old people in an urban population. A medical and social characterization.
Within the framework of the longitudinal gerontological and geriatric population study in Göteborg, Sweden, the sample of which comprising altogether 1148 70-year-old males and females in 1971/72, those 32 probands, 15 males and 17 females, who were institutionalized were studied in more detail. The types of institutions were for care of somatic diseases (5 males and 9 females), for alcohol abusers (6 males and no female), and for mental diseases (4 males and 8 females). The impressions was that the overwhelming majority of these probands should not manage to be at home without great personnel and technical resources.
D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006299:Health Services for the Aged; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D009735:Nursing Homes; D013548:Sweden; D014505:Urban Population