Group-Living Care: An Alternative for the Demented Elderly

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Group-living (GL) care as an alternative to traditional long-term care for elderly demented people is rapidly proliferating across Sweden. In engineering the psychosocial and physical environment according to the competence and needs of moderately and moderately to severely demented patients, therapeutic effects on symptoms can be achieved during a period of the dementing process. The background, implementation and outcome of a concept of GL care developed for patients suffering from dementia of Alzheimer type (DAT), vascular dementia (VD) and mixed DAT and VD is presented as is the role of GL in the total dementia care of a community.

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Journal ID (publisher-id): DEM

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord

Journal ID (doi): 10.1159/issn.1420-8008

Title: Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Publisher: S. Karger AG

ISBN: 978-3-8055-6454-0

ISBN: 978-3-8055-8762-4

ISSN (Print): 1420-8008

ISSN (Electronic): 1421-9824

Publication date Subscription-year: 1997

Publication date (Print): 1997

Publication date (Electronic): 12 February 1997

Volume: 8

Issue: 2

Pages: 136-142

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Department of Community Medicine, Malmö University Hospital, University of Lund, Sweden

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Publisher ID: 106620 Other ID: Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 1997;8:136–142

DOI: 10.1159/000106620

PubMed ID: 9065329

SO-VID: 75442a3b-3e1b-42e2-9151-cdeee6164c98

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