title: [Nursing home day-care: a growing function for a rather stable patient group].
abstract: This article is a descriptive study of the characteristics of nursing home day-care patients in the Netherlands in 1995 at first admission and at discharge. Data were derived from the National Nursing Home Registration System (SIVIS), in which in 1995 over 85% of Dutch nursing homes participated. Newly admitted day-care patients are characterized by high age (89% older than 65 years), a distribution with (only!) 9% more women than men and a morbidity pattern of chronic somatic (cerebrovascular disease 45%) and psychogeriatric (dementia 80%) disorders. This morbidity pattern was associated with a considerable degree of disability, in particular regarding the activities of daily living and mobility. Most patients (78%) come from their own homes. The average length of stay from admittance to discharge, for both somatic and psychogeriatic day-care patients was nine months. For about 10% of the somatic patients and 40% of the psychogeriatic ones ambulatory day-care resulted in (subsequent) admission to the nursing home itself. In the last decade nursing home day-care capacity has increased rapidly and parallel to this also the number of day-care patients. Remarkably the average level of disability and the average period of treatment of nursing home day-care patients has remained approximately the same in this period.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Schols
authors.forename: D H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Frijters
authors.forename: R T
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: Koopmans
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Diederiks
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sturmans
authors.forename: H F
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Crebolder
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003631:Day Care, Medical / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008297:Male; D009017:Morbidity; D009426:Netherlands / Q000453:epidemiology; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D017678:Sex Distribution
vernacular_title: Verpleeghuisdagbehandeling: een groeiende functie voor een tamelijk vast omschreven doelgroep.