Age-related predictors of institutionalization: results of the German study on ageing, cognition and dementia in primary care patients (AgeCoDe).

  • Melanie Luppa
  • Steffi G Riedel-Heller
  • Tobias Luck
  • Birgitt Wiese
  • Hendrik Bussche van den
  • Franziska Haller
  • Melanie Sauder
  • Edelgard Mösch
  • Michael Pentzek
  • Anja Wollny
  • Marion Eisele
  • Thomas Zimmermann
  • Hans-Helmut König
  • Wolfgang Maier
  • Horst Bickel
  • Jochen Werle
  • Siegfried Weyerer

Abstract

In the last decades, many community-based studies have addressed predictors of nursing home placement (NHP) among the elderly. So far, predictors have not been analyzed separately for different age groups.

Bibliographical data

Original languageEnglish
Article number2
ISSN0933-7954
Publication statusPublished - 2012
pubmed 21181110