Abstract
Aims of the present study are the following: 1. to describe the rationale and methodology of the Services and Health for Elderly in Long TERm care (SHELTER) study, a project funded by the European Union, aimed at implementing the interRAI instrument for Long Term Care Facilities (interRAI LTCF) as a tool to assess and gather uniform information about nursing home (NH) residents across different health systems in European countries; 2. to present the results about the test-retest and inter-rater reliability of the interRAI LTCF instrument translated into the languages of participating countries; 3 to illustrate the characteristics of NH residents at study entry.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 5-5 |
| Number of pages | 1 |
| Journal | BMC Health Services Research |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | Gennaio |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Health Policy
Keywords
- 80 and over
- Activities of Daily Living
- Aged
- Cognition Disorders
- Cross-Cultural Comparison
- Disabled Persons
- Europe
- European Union
- Female
- Geriatric Assessment
- Homes for the Aged
- Humans
- Long-Term Care
- Male
- Nursing Homes
- Reproducibility of Results
- Translations
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