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Trends in the use and costs of round-the-clock long-term care in the last two years of life among old people between 2002 and 2013 in Finland

BACKGROUND: The structure of long-term care (LTC) for old people has changed: care has been shifted from institutions to the community, and death is being postponed to increasingly old age. The aim of the study was to analyze how the use and costs of LTC in the last two years of life among old peopl...

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Autores principales: Forma, Leena, Jylhä, Marja, Pulkki, Jutta, Aaltonen, Mari, Raitanen, Jani, Rissanen, Pekka
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/PMC5606077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28927415
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-017-2615-3