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SUBMITTER: Aaltonen MS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6709434 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan-Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Aaltonen Mari S MS Forma Leena P LP Pulkki Jutta M JM Raitanen Jani A JA Rissanen Pekka P Jylhä Marja K MK
Gerontology & geriatric medicine 20190101
Welfare states increasingly rely on aging in place policies and have cut back on institutional long-term care (LTC) provision. Simultaneously, the major determinants of LTC use, that is, dementia and living to very old age, are increasing. We investigated how increasing longevity and concomitant dementia were associated with changes in round-the-clock LTC use in the last 5 years of life between 1996 and 2013. Retrospective data drawn from national registers included all those who died aged 70+ i ...[more]