title: Special units aim at dementia.
abstract: Nursing home providers, especially the large chains, are responding to calls for improved services for people with Alzheimer's disease and other dementia-related disorders by developing special-care units. While Alzheimer's programs have been in existence since the mid-1980s, the rising number of seniors who have the disease and their families' demands for quality long-term-care programs have resulted in rapid growth.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Burns
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000523:psychology*; D003704:Dementia / Q000523:psychology; D005382:Financing, Personal; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D008484:Medicaid; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000458:organization & administration; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States