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Institutional and Non-institutional Long-Term Care

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Good long-term care is shaped by good management of long-term conditions, effective implementation of comprehensive geriatric assessment, person- and relationship-centred care and holistic models of health and well-being. Person-centred care is defined as giving patients voice, choice and control over management decisions. This is more difficult in more dependent patients. Long-term care is different in different countries because of social and policy-based considerations that will change over time. Regardless of international differences, the need for long-term care is shaped by similar care requirements between countries. Common nursing home-defining diagnoses are stroke and dementia and common syndromes are faecal incontinence and nocturnal agitation.

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  1. Division of Medical Sciences and Graduate Entry Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

    Adam Gordon

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  1. Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Regina Roller-Wirnsberger

  2. Institute for Biomedicine of Ageing Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

    Katrin Singler

  3. Ageing Clinical Research Department Medicine II, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

    Maria Cristina Polidori

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Gordon, A. (2018). Institutional and Non-institutional Long-Term Care. In: Roller-Wirnsberger, R., Singler, K., Polidori, M. (eds) Learning Geriatric Medicine. Practical Issues in Geriatrics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61997-2_32

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