Elderly in nursing homes worse off than those at home

research MIAMI: A new study by LO, the interest group and member authority for Denmark’s municipalities, has found that patients in nursing homes report falling ill more often than their counterparts living at home.

In 2008, 37.2 percent of nursing home residents were hospitalised at least once a year. That number has now risen to 42.2 percent. In contrast, the same statistic has remained consistent at 28.7 percent for elderly people living in their own houses…..

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