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Peer reviewedYordi, Cathleen L.; Waldman, Jacqueline – Gerontologist, 1985
Assessed service utilization and cost impacts of a consolidated model of long-term care for functionally impaired elders. Compared to traditional long-term care, this model reduces hospital and nursing home stays, redistributes funds to broad range of community-based services, and reduces overall cost of long-term care. (Author/NRB)
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Cost Effectiveness, Health Needs, Medical Care Evaluation
Peer reviewedKnight, Bob; Walker, Deborah Lower – Gerontologist, 1985
Offers proposed definitions of "frail elderly" and "range of institutional care", and argues that an active problem-solving, treatment-oriented approach can reduce unnecessary institutionalization and that the movement to deinstitutionalize the elderly can learn from the history of the deinstitutionalization of other groups.…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Community Health Services, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Gerontology
