Validation therapy (VT) in nursing home: a case-control study.

VT is a method for communicating with elderly people with dementia. It has been applied since 2001 at the "Istituto Giovanni XXIII" in Bologna, a public trust, housing over 500 not self-sufficient elderly people. Around 75% of these subjects suffer from cognitive impairment, associated to behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) in over 35%.

[Analysis of operating costs during a year in an infectious diseases department (April '94-March '95)].

The Authors have analytically worked out the operating costs on the different pathologies for all the patients admitted at the Infectious Diseases department (USL Bologna City) from April 1994 to March 1995. The economic costs for one-year treatment of AIDS patients were very expensive for the community. In fact, for each patient, the average hospital admissions were 2.