title: Partnership nursing home care for dementia: the Glasgow experience--one-year follow-up.
abstract: The outcome of the transfer of 60 elderly patients suffering from dementia from hospital to nursing home care under a partnership contract was reviewed at 6 and 12 months following transfer. The nursing home population had fared badly compared with patients remaining in hospital during the first 3 months. This difference was less evident at 6 months follow-up and had disappeared at 12 months follow-up. It seems that a partnership agreement such as this can deliver a quality of health care at least as good as hospital treatment as long as the transfer is handled carefully.
authors.affiliation: Leverndale Hospital, Glasgow, UK.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lyons
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cohen
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Henderson
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Walker
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003284:Contract Services; D003704:Dementia / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005852:Geriatric Psychiatry; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009735:Nursing Homes; D010360:Patient Transfer / Q000379:methods*; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care