An international definition for "nursing home"

Angela M Sanford; Martin Orrell; Debbie Tolson; Angela Marie Abbatecola; Hidenori Arai; Juergen M Bauer; Alfonso J Cruz-Jentoft; Birong Dong; Hyuk Ga; Ashish Goel; Ramzi Hajjar; Iva Holmerova; Paul R Katz; Raymond T C M Koopmans; Yves Rolland; Renuka Visvanathan; Jean Woo; John E Morley; Bruno Vellas

doi:10.1016/j.jamda.2014.12.013

An international definition for "nursing home"

J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2015 Mar;16(3):181-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2014.12.013.

Authors

Angela M Sanford¹, Martin Orrell², Debbie Tolson³, Angela Marie Abbatecola⁴, Hidenori Arai⁵, Juergen M Bauer⁶, Alfonso J Cruz-Jentoft⁷, Birong Dong⁸, Hyuk Ga⁹, Ashish Goel¹⁰, Ramzi Hajjar¹¹, Iva Holmerova¹², Paul R Katz¹³, Raymond T C M Koopmans¹⁴, Yves Rolland¹⁵, Renuka Visvanathan¹⁶, Jean Woo¹⁷, John E Morley¹⁸, Bruno Vellas¹⁵

Affiliations

¹ Division of Geriatric Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO. Electronic address: lipkaa@slu.edu.
² University College and North East London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
³ University of West Scotland, Hamilton, Scotland, UK.
⁴ Italian National Research Center on Aging (INRCA), Ancona, Italy.
⁵ Department of Human Health Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
⁶ Department of Geriatric Medicine, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany.
⁷ Servicio de Geriatria, Hospital Universitario Ramon y Cajal, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
⁸ Department of Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
⁹ Korean Association of Geriatric Hospitals, Incheon Eun-Hye Hospital, Incheon, Korea.
¹⁰ University College of Medical Sciences and Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, Delhi, India.
¹¹ Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
¹² Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Humanities, CELLO, NT 11325 Quality of Long-Term Care Project, Prague, Czech Republic.
¹³ University of Toronto, Baycrest Medical Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
¹⁴ Department of Primary and Community Care, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
¹⁵ Gerontologie Clinique, CHU Toulouse, INSERM 1027, Toulouse, France.
¹⁶ Adelaide Geriatrics Training and Research with Aged Care Centre, School of Medicine, University of Adelaide and The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia.
¹⁷ The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
¹⁸ Division of Geriatric Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO; Division of Endocrinology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.

PMID: 25704126
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2014.12.013

Abstract

There is much ambiguity regarding the term "nursing home" in the international literature. The definition of a nursing home and the type of assistance provided in a nursing home is quite varied by country. The International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics and AMDA foundation developed a survey to assist with an international consensus on the definition of "nursing home."

Keywords: Nursing home definition; care home; long-term care.

MeSH terms

Female
Geriatrics / organization & administration*
Humans
Internationality
Long-Term Care / organization & administration
Male
Nurse-Patient Relations
Nursing Homes / classification*
Quality of Health Care*
Risk Assessment