Publications by authors named "Gilberte Van Rensbergen"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates why disabled elderly individuals, despite preferring home care, often end up in nursing homes.
- Researchers analyzed data from 125 elderly individuals admitted to nursing homes in Antwerp, focusing on their profiles, motives, and the time between their onset of dependency and the request for admission.
- Results showed that the average age of applicants was 83, with a significant portion classified as needing extensive assistance, and highlighted that widowed women were particularly affected by isolation and dependency levels.
Background: As long-term nursing home care is likely to increase with the aging of the population, identifying chronic medical conditions is of particular interest. Although need factors have a strong impact on nursing home (NH) admission, the diseases causing these functional disabilities are lacking or unclear in the residents' file. We investigated the medical reason (primary diagnosis) of a nursing home admission with respect to the underlying disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Most of the research concerning place of death focuses on terminally ill patients (cancer patients) while the determinants of place of death of the elderly of the general population are not intensively studied. Studies showed the influence of gender, age, social-economical status and living arrangements on the place of death, but a facet not taken into account so far is the influence of the availability of nursing homes.
Methods: We conducted a survey of deaths, between January 1999 and December 2000 in a small densely populated area in Belgium, with a high availability of nursing homes (within 5 to 10 km of the place of residence of every elderly).