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Relationship of Behavioral Disturbances in Demented Patients to Institutional Care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2005

Bengt Winblad
Bengt Winblad
Affiliation:
Karolinska Institute, Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Family Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Huddinge Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden Stockholm Gerontology Research Center, Stockholm, Sweden.
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The proportion of institutionalized and noninstitutionalized demented people differs among countries. In the Kungsholmen study in Sweden, in the total population 75 years and older, around 50% of the demented people lived in their own homes and 50% lived in various types of institutions. In the future, it may not be possible, for ideological and financial reasons, to build new institutions to take care of the increasing number of dependent and ill elderly. Home care with support for relatives, day care, and collective living are better alternatives for some demented people.

Type
International Perspectives: Sweden
Information
International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 8 , Issue S1 , October 1996 , pp. 133 - 135
Copyright
© 1996 International Psychogeriatric Association

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