Independence, institutionalization, death and treatment costs 18 months after rehabilitation of older people in two different primary health care settings.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The optimal setting and content of primary health care rehabilitation of older people is not known. Our aim was to study independence, institutionalization, death and treatment costs 18 months after primary care rehabilitation of older people in two different settings.

Methods

Eighteen months follow-up of an open, prospective study comparing the outcome of multi-disciplinary rehabilitation of older people, in a structured and intensive Primary care dedicated inpatient rehabilitation (PCDIR, n=202) versus a less structured and less intensive Primary care nursing home rehabilitation (PCNHR, n=100).

Participants

302 patients, disabled from stroke, hip-fracture, osteoarthritis and other chronic diseases, aged ≥65years, assessed to have a rehabilitation potentia

SUBMITTER: Johansen I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3507889 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature