The role of functioning in predicting nursing home placement or death among older home care patients.

Eeva Björkstedt Ari Voutilainen Kati Auvinen Virva Hyttinen Johanna Jyrkkä Pekka Mäntyselkä Eija Lönnroos

Published in: Scandinavian journal of primary health care (2023)

Basic measures of functioning can be used to identify high-risk patients in home care. Decreasing BADL, IADL and MMSE predict NHP and longer TUG-times death within a year.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease