Weissert W G
Health Care Financ Rev. 1985 Summer;6(4):83-91.
To facilitate manpower and service need estimates, the long-term care population must be defined in terms of dependency on human assistance in daily functioning. Such a definition of dependency is applied to national population data bases, using the 1977 National Nursing Home Survey and the 1977, 1979, and 1980 National Health Interview Surveys. The four categories of dependency are personal care, mobility, household activities, and home-administered health care services. Although projections to the year 2000 show a doubling of the nursing home population, estimates of the overall prevalence of functional dependency remain smaller than is popularly believed.
为便于估计人力和服务需求，必须根据日常功能对人力协助的依赖程度来界定长期护理人群。利用1977年全国疗养院调查以及1977年、1979年和1980年全国健康访谈调查，将这种依赖程度的定义应用于全国人口数据库。依赖的四类情况为个人护理、行动能力、家务活动和家庭自我保健服务。尽管到2000年的预测显示疗养院人口数量将翻番，但功能依赖总体患病率的估计仍低于普遍认知。
