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Discharge from institutional long term care — does it really ever happen?
Author(s)	Ingrid Magro, Peter Ferry
Journal title	BOLD, vol 15, no 4, August 2005
Publisher	International Institute on Ageing (United Nations - Malta), August 2005
Pages	pp 29-31
Source	http://www.inia.org.mt
Keywords	Discharge [hospitals] ; Discharge [nursing homes] ; Rehabilitation ; Case studies ; Malta.
Annotation	The final decision on whether an older person should enter long-term care should be taken after screening for irreversible disability, and ideally prior to admission to a long-stay institution. An exercise carried out on applicants to Malta's largest long-term institution (St Vincent de Paule Residence - SVPR) found that 22% of applicants could have been supported in the community, 21 required rehabilitation, with only 57% requiring long-term care. Post-admission multidisciplinary assessment is being carried out at SVPR. This article presents case reports on two women, illustrative of successful post-admission assessment and rehabilitation at SVPR, and resulting in successful discharge back into the community. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-050926209 A
Classmark	LD:QKJ: LHB:QKJ: LM: 69P: 76W
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