Characteristics of Patients and Medical Care in New Haven Area Nursing Homes

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THERE is widespread ignorance in the medical community today concerning nursing homes —their patients, their potentialities and their special problems. Moreover, it is only in the last 15 years that anything resembling a real effort has been undertaken to lessen this ignorance. The reasons for this situation have been many and varied.First of all, nursing homes have flourished only since 1935, when the Social Security Act made available substantial public-assistance hinds for the aged. Recently published data indicate that 700,000 persons reside in "nursing homes and related facilities."1 Another factor has been the opinion of medical personnel that nursing . . .

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