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The Gerontologist, Vol 32, Issue 2 191-196, Copyright © 1992 by The Gerontological Society of America

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Special care units in nursing homes: prevalence in five states

D Holmes, J Teresi and C Monaco
Hebrew Home for the Aged, Riverdale, NY 10471.

As part of a five-state study of the impact of special care units for demented residents, the authors surveyed (with telephone follow-up) nursing homes to identify those facilities that maintained some form of special care unit. The estimated prevalence was 11%; this finding suggests that special care units are far more numerous than had previously been reported. This difference is due in part to definitional considerations: many facilities maintain "cluster units" that do not differ appreciably from segregated units. However, more often than not, facilities did not regard these units as special care units.


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