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Emergency ambulance service involvement with residential care homes in the support of older people with dementia: an observational study

BACKGROUND: Older people resident in care homes have a limited life expectancy and approximately two-thirds have limited mental capacity. Despite initiatives to reduce unplanned hospital admissions for this population, little is known about the involvement of emergency services in supporting residen...

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Autores principales: Amador, Sarah, Goodman, Claire, King, Derek, Machen, Ina, Elmore, Natasha, Mathie, Elspeth, Iliffe, Steve
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4154936/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25164581
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-14-95