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Five-year follow-up study of nursing home residents using the behavioral rating scale. 1993

I Nagatomo, and M Nomaguchi, and K Matsumoto

Department of Neuropsychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima University, Japan.

We followed up 109 elderly nursing home residents for 5 years using the modified Stockton Geriatric Rating Scale (SGRS). They were divided into 3 groups according to their walking ability, prolonged bedrest, walking with aids and walking by themselves. The scores of physical disability and apathy and the total score were in direct proportion to the degree of walking ability, and the score of communication failure of prolonged bedrest was significantly higher than those of other 2 states in the initial examination. The percentage of mortality of prolonged bedrest was significantly higher than those of other 2 groups. Physical disabilities of all the groups had deteriorated during the follow-up period, but only communication failure of walking with aids and the total score of walking by themselves had aggravated. It is considered that using of the behavioral rating scale such as the modified SGRS is conformative in caring of the elderly.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008297	Male		Males
D009026	Mortality	All deaths reported in a given population.	CFR Case Fatality Rate,Crude Death Rate,Crude Mortality Rate,Death Rate,Age Specific Death Rate,Age-Specific Death Rate,Case Fatality Rate,Decline, Mortality,Determinants, Mortality,Differential Mortality,Excess Mortality,Mortality Decline,Mortality Determinants,Mortality Rate,Mortality, Differential,Mortality, Excess,Age-Specific Death Rates,Case Fatality Rates,Crude Death Rates,Crude Mortality Rates,Death Rate, Age-Specific,Death Rate, Crude,Death Rates,Determinant, Mortality,Differential Mortalities,Excess Mortalities,Mortalities,Mortality Declines,Mortality Determinant,Mortality Rate, Crude,Mortality Rates,Rate, Age-Specific Death,Rate, Case Fatality,Rate, Crude Death,Rate, Crude Mortality,Rate, Death,Rate, Mortality,Rates, Case Fatality
D009735	Nursing Homes	Facilities which provide nursing supervision and limited medical care to persons who do not require hospitalization.	Homes, Nursing,Nursing Home
D005260	Female		Females
D005500	Follow-Up Studies	Studies in which individuals or populations are followed to assess the outcome of exposures, procedures, or effects of a characteristic, e.g., occurrence of disease.	Followup Studies,Follow Up Studies,Follow-Up Study,Followup Study,Studies, Follow-Up,Studies, Followup,Study, Follow-Up,Study, Followup
D006233	Disabled Persons	Persons with physical or mental disabilities that affect or limit their activities of daily living and that may require special accommodations.	Handicapped,People with Disabilities,Persons with Disabilities,Physically Challenged,Physically Handicapped,Physically Disabled,Disabilities, People with,Disabilities, Persons with,Disability, Persons with,Disabled Person,Disabled, Physically,Handicapped, Physically,People with Disability,Person, Disabled,Persons with Disability,Persons, Disabled
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000203	Activities of Daily Living	The performance of the basic activities of self care, such as dressing, ambulation, or eating.	ADL,Chronic Limitation of Activity,Limitation of Activity, Chronic,Activities, Daily Living,Activity, Daily Living,Daily Living Activities,Daily Living Activity,Living Activities, Daily,Living Activity, Daily
D000368	Aged	A person 65 years of age or older. For a person older than 79 years, AGED, 80 AND OVER is available.	Elderly
D001510	Bed Rest	Confinement of an individual to bed for therapeutic or experimental reasons.	Bedrest,Bed Rests,Bedrests,Rest, Bed,Rests, Bed