Sherrill K A, Reifler B V, Henry R S, Myers A K
Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC.
Pride Inst J Long Term Home Health Care. 1992 Summer;11(3):14-9.
Adult day programs are a rapidly growing alternative for community-based care for the elderly, but there are few descriptions of dementia-specific programs in the gerontologic literature. We present the first overview of such efforts in the United States with a national scope, using information provided by a pool of 283 applicants to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Dementia Care and Respite Services Program. Results show program consistency in hours of operation and use of professional staff, and variability in sources of funding and size of the community served. On the average, participant fees accounted for less than 25 percent of total revenues.
成人日间照料项目是一种发展迅速的社区养老替代方案，但老年医学文献中针对痴呆症的特定项目描述较少。我们利用罗伯特·伍德·约翰逊基金会痴呆症护理与喘息服务项目的283名申请人提供的信息，首次在美国范围内对这类项目进行了概述。结果显示，各项目在运营时长和专业人员使用方面具有一致性，但在资金来源和服务社区规模方面存在差异。平均而言，参与者费用占总收入的比例不到25%。
