Publications by authors named "Amanda T Lo"
Objectives: To determine the prevalence of dementia in a palliative care unit (PCU) and to determine whether there is a difference between length of stay (LOS) and Palliative Performance Scale (PPS) score in individuals admitted with a primary diagnosis of dementia compared to individuals admitted with other noncancer and cancer diagnoses.
Design: Descriptive retrospective chart review.
Setting: Geriatric PCU in an academic community geriatric hospital.
Background: Home care services play an integral role in promoting independence, reducing hospital admission and readmission rates, and preventing or delaying nursing home admission among older adults. Despite important sex differences in functional status and use of services by recipients of home care, differences in home care performance measures by sex have not been examined.
Objective: To assess sex differences in the quality of publicly funded home care services in Ontario, Canada.