Functionality Impaired Elderly: Their Need for Home Nursing Care

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Abstract
An understanding of care requirements of functionally impaired elderly living in the community is especially important to community health nurses (CHNs), if they are to maximize services to elderly care recipients and their lay caregivers. This study is a report of the functional status of 53 elderly care recipients who were receiving care by informal and formal caregivers. Findings on the functional abilities of elderly in this study are compared with findings from studies of nursing home and community residing elderly. Implications for nursing practice relative to assessments and interventions for functionally impaired elderly are given. Results of the research point to the need for additional investigations to determine home-care needs of growing numbers of of frail elderly.