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Record Nr.

UNINA9910220013503321

Autore

Ågotnes Gudmund

Titolo

The institutional practice [[electronic resource] ] : on nursing homes and hospitalizations / / Gudmund Ågotnes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cappelen Damm Akademisk/NOASP (Nordic Open Access Scholarly Publishing), 2017

[Place of publication not identified] : , : Cappelen Damm Akademisk/NOASP (Nordic Open Access Scholarly Publication), , 2017

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Soggetti

Nursing homes

Professional practice

Older people - Care - Norway

Older people - Care - Canada

Older people - Care - United States

Older people - Care - Great Britain

Older people - Medical care

Nursing homes - Case studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction --chapter 2. Background and context -- chapter 3. The nursing homes --Part one of the analysis: a preliminary analysis of hospitalizations from nursing homes --chapter 4. An analysis of the literature on hospitalization --chapter 5. What matters? A small chapter about complexity --chapter 6. The ambiguity of "hospitalizations" --Part two of the analysis: the premises of practice --chapter 7. Understanding the nursing home --chapter 8. "Hardship and toil" in the nursing home --Part three of the analysis: variation in practice --chapter 9. The institutional practice --chapter 10. Variation in hospitalization --Source of data.

Sommario/riassunto

The nursing home resident of today is old and frail. Despite such a frailty, many residents are hospitalized, often with the intention of life-extension. Furthermore, rates of hospitalization varies considerably



between countries, regions and institutions, even within smaller geographical areas. Even though relating to the same structural framework and conditions, distance to hospitals for instance, some nursing homes hospitalize considerably more than others.