An international definition for "nursing home"

Angela M. Sanford; Martin Orrell; Debbie Tolson; Angela Marie Abbatecola; Hidenori Arai; Juergen M Bauer; Alfonso J Cruz-Jentoft; Birong Dong; Hyuk Ga; Ashish Goel; Ramzi Hajjar; Iva Holmerova; Paul R Katz; Raymond T C M Koopmans; Yves Rolland; Renuka Visvanathan; Jean Woo; John E Morley; Bruno Vellas

doi:10.1016/j.jamda.2014.12.013

An international definition for "nursing home"

Angela M. Sanford
, Martin Orrell
, Debbie Tolson
, Angela Marie Abbatecola
, Hidenori Arai
, Juergen M Bauer
, Alfonso J Cruz-Jentoft
, Birong Dong
, Hyuk Ga
, Ashish Goel
, Ramzi Hajjar
, Iva Holmerova
, Paul R Katz
, Raymond T C M Koopmans
, Yves Rolland
, Renuka Visvanathan
, Jean Woo
, John E Morley
, Bruno Vellas

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Abstract

There is much ambiguity regarding the term "nursing home" in the international literature. The definition of a nursing home and the type of assistance provided in a nursing home is quite varied by country. The International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics and AMDA foundation developed a survey to assist with an international consensus on the definition of "nursing home."

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	181-4
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
Volume	16
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2014.12.013
Publication status	Published - Mar 2015

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Sanford, A. M., Orrell, M., Tolson, D., Abbatecola, A. M., Arai, H., Bauer, J. M., Cruz-Jentoft, A. J., Dong, B., Ga, H., Goel, A., Hajjar, R., Holmerova, I., Katz, P. R., Koopmans, R. T. C. M., Rolland, Y., Visvanathan, R., Woo, J., Morley, J. E., & Vellas, B. (2015). An international definition for "nursing home". Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 16(3), 181-4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2014.12.013

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