Klein T, Salaske I
Fakultät für Verwaltungswissenschaft, Universität Konstanz.
Gesundheitswesen. 1994 May;56(5):235-40.
The article is based on a longitudinal study examining the risk of institutionalization in old age, especially with reference to the health status. According to the results, chronic disease only in interaction with old age has a significant impact on institutionalization. Other interactions for example between health status and housing conditions or between health status and marital status were not found. However, the age impact on institutionalization is not fully explained by other factors such as health condition. Altogether, healthy elderly people become institutionalized less often and later than elderly people who are either chronically ill or physically disabled or handicapped.
这篇文章基于一项纵向研究，该研究考察了老年时期进入养老院的风险，尤其涉及健康状况。根据研究结果，仅慢性病与老年相互作用时，才会对进入养老院产生重大影响。未发现其他相互作用，例如健康状况与住房条件之间或健康状况与婚姻状况之间的相互作用。然而，年龄对进入养老院的影响并不能完全由健康状况等其他因素来解释。总体而言，健康的老年人进入养老院的频率低于慢性病患者、身体残疾或有障碍的老年人，且时间也更晚。
