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Gender differences in home care clients and admission to long-term care in Ontario, Canada: a population-based retrospective cohort study

BACKGROUND: Home care is integral to enabling older adults to delay or avoid long-term care (LTC) admission. To date, there is little population-based data about gender differences in home care users and their subsequent outcomes. Our objectives were to quantify differences between women and men who...

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Autores principales: Gruneir, Andrea, Forrester, Jacqueline, Camacho, Ximena, Gill, Sudeep S, Bronskill, Susan E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3679828/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23678949
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-13-48