요양병원과 병원에 입원한 노인의 기능상태수준의 차이에 관한 연구 = A Study on Differences of the Functional Status among Elderly Patients in Long-term-care hospital and General Hospital

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In Korea, the proportion of 65-year-old elderly population were gradually increased and over 7 percentage in 2000. To care elderly properly, various type of healthcare institutions is needed. There is general hospital and long-term care hospital among medical institution. In this study, difference of functional status and severity between elderly inpatients in general hospital and those in long-term care hospital was investigated. Comprehensive functional status of 577 patients that were hospitalized in 3 long-term care hospitals and 2 general hospitals was examined. On the contrary to our expectation, patients in long-term care hospital had lower activities of daily livings and more severe medical conditions than those in hospital. These results suggested that healthcare system and healthcare resource distribution for elderly patients are not worked efficiently.