Publications by authors named "Till Baldenius"
Z Gerontol Geriatr
August 2024
Article Synopsis
- - The text discusses the growing need for strategies to prevent or reduce care dependency among individuals, with a focus on insights from long-term care assessments.
- - It highlights a study analyzing data from 339,486 first-time long-term care applicants aged 60 and older in 2021, revealing that a majority were in lower care levels and common diagnoses included senility, polyarthritis, and dementia.
- - The findings indicate that social factors like age, gender, living arrangements, and geographic location impact care level classification, suggesting that further research is needed to understand these regional differences in diagnoses.
