An International Definition for Nursing Home
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There is much ambiguity regarding the term nursing home in the international literature. The definition of a nursing home and the type of assistance provided in a nursing home is quite varied by country. The International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics and AMDA foundation developed a survey to assist with an international consensus on the definition of nursing home.. © 2015 AMDA - The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine.
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Care home, Long-term care, Nursing home definition, Female, Geriatrics, Humans, Internationality, Male, Nurse-patient relations, Nursing homes, Quality of health care, Risk assessment, Acute disease, Article, Assisted living facility, Chronic disease, Cognitive defect, Consensus, Daily life activity, Evidence based practice, Functional training, Geriatric hospital, Geriatric rehabilitation, Health care availability, Health care policy, Hospice care, Human, Long term care, Medical research, Medical terminology, Nursing home, Nursing home patient, Nursing home personnel, Nursing staff, Occupational therapy, Physical disease, Physician, Physiotherapy, Rehabilitation care, Speech therapy, Terminal care, Classification, Health care quality, International cooperation, Nurse patient relationship, Organization and management