Is a pandemic another reason the additional capital cost of home-like clustered domestic residential aged care homes is justified?

Age Ageing

Rehabilitation, Aged and Extended Care, Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, Flinders University, Bedford Park 5042, Australia.

Published: October 2020

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