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Survival analysis of increases in care needs associated with dementia and living alone among older long-term care service users in Japan

BACKGROUND: Japan is known for its long life expectancy and rapidly aging society that there are various demands of older adults need to be fulfilled with, and one of them is long-term care needs. Therefore, Japan implemented the Long-Term Care Insurance in year 2000 for citizens who are above 65-ye...

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Autores principales: Lin, Huei-Ru, Otsubo, Tetsuya, Imanaka, Yuichi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5559793/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28814271
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-017-0555-8