Sherwood S, Morris J N, Barnhart E
J Gerontol. 1975 May;30(3):331-42. doi: 10.1093/geronj/30.3.331.
With the goal of maximizing the most suitable placement of elderly persons into different types of residential settings, a mathematical system is being developed, using discriminant function analysis, for replicating interdisciplinary clinical team judgments concerning case specific appropriateness for (1) an institutional setting; (2) an apartment in sheltered housing (providing at least the major meal of the day plus housekeeping services); and (3) an apartment in more traditional housing for the elderly. Two discriminant function systems are being developed--the first for separating elderly persons into those needing institutionalization and those requiring a less supervised setting and the second for separting persons judged not to be in need of institutionalization into those requiring either sheltered housing or some other more independent residency situation. While the first function is considered more fully developed at this time, the second is nevertheless useful in that is suggests forces (variables) predictive of such judgments.
为了实现将老年人安置到不同类型居住环境中的最合适位置最大化的目标，正在开发一种数学系统，该系统使用判别函数分析来复制跨学科临床团队关于以下方面特定案例适宜性的判断：（1）机构环境；（2）庇护性住房中的公寓（提供至少一日主餐以及家政服务）；（3）更传统的老年公寓。正在开发两个判别函数系统——第一个用于将老年人分为需要机构照料的人和需要较少监管环境的人，第二个用于将被判定不需要机构照料的人分为需要庇护性住房或其他更独立居住情况的人。虽然目前第一个函数被认为更完善，但第二个函数也很有用，因为它指出了预测此类判断的因素（变量）。
