Home Care vs. Nursing Home
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Care Sciences & Services".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 June 2023) | Viewed by 3451
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Providing cost-effective and high-quality care of older people has been established as one of the major challenges of this century due to a rapidly increasing aging population, and the consequential long-term burden imposed on aged care systems. The demographic challenges associated with increased longevity thus reinforce the need for the development and testing of innovative solutions for the care and support of older people to enable our society to meet the increasing needs of the aging population.
Even though “aging in place” (remaining at home) for as long as possible is a common goal for older people, increasing needs for professional support can make this unachievable. Older people often spend an increasing amount of time within or close to the home as a result of limited mobility, cognitive decline, and/or loss of social networks. Aging in one’s own home is generally described as something positive, and a common goal of support provided to older people is to facilitate the possibility of maintaining independence and remaining in their own home for as long as possible. However, critiques have been raised that the needs of older people are not sufficiently met. This means that life at home is often described in terms of boredom, loneliness, and diminishing quality of life for frail older people, and aged care struggles to provide more than the most basic physical care and/or providing monitored containment. This Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) focuses on the current state of knowledge in housing models for the care for frail older people and new and innovative housing models including aging in place and nursing homes. New research papers, reviews, and conference papers are welcome submissions to this Special Issue.
Dr. Anders Sköldunger
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- home care
- nursing home
- housing models
- aging in place
- dementia
- frailty
