title: [Survival rate of elderly patients with senile dementia according to type of institutional care. Comparison between "long stay hospitals" and structures of the type "cantou"].
abstract: The proliferation of new forms of so-called "non-medical" care for the elderly suffering from dementia raises the problem of the subsequent impact of this development on the quality of the care given. One way of approaching this question is to examine survival of the persons admitted to this form of care. A comparison was made of the survival of elderly persons admitted to an innovative "non-medical" form of care (units known as "cantou") with that of elderly patients in long-stay hospital care. A retrospective analysis was carried out of the survival of 707 elderly persons with dementia admitted into both types of care between the 1st of May 1978 and the 15th of September 1988. After controlling for age, sex and date of admission no significant difference in survival was found between the two forms of care. This supports the notion that the quality of medical care in the "cantou" is not fundamentally different from that provided by long-stay hospitals.
authors.affiliation: INSERM Equipe Vieillissement cognitif, Hôpital Lapeyronie, Montpellier.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ledésert
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Colvez
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003704:Dementia / Q000401:mortality* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006302:Health Services Research; D016852:Housing for the Elderly / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012866:Skilled Nursing Facilities / Q000592:standards*; D015996:Survival Rate
vernacular_title: Survie des personnes âgées atteintes de démence sénile selon le type d'établisement d'accueil. Comparaison entre les "longs séjours hospitaliers" et les structures de type "cantou".