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

Age Ageing. 2020 Oct 23;49(6):928-929. doi: 10.1093/ageing/afaa190.

Authors

Suzanne M Dyer¹, Dominic Tilden², Madeleine Valeri², Stephen Judd³, Maria Crotty¹

Affiliations

¹ Rehabilitation, Aged and Extended Care, Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, Flinders University, Bedford Park 5042, Australia.
² THEMA Consulting Pty Ltd, Pyrmont, Australia.
³ HammondCare, Sydney 2000, Australia.

PMID: 32866222
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afaa190

No abstract available

Keywords: Nursing homes; dementia; healthcare services for older people; medical economics; resource allocation.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Aged
Home Care Services*
Homes for the Aged
Humans
Pandemics*