The elderly fare better when local healthcare options are available.
A variety of intermediate level monitoring, care, and treatment services are frequently required for older adults with health issues.
They might not require a hospital's resources, but they do need a little more sophisticated assistance than a nursing home typically provides. Although they are occasionally used after admission, "intermediate care units" are generally designed to replace an acute hospital admission.
Norway is much ahead of the curve in this area as intermediate care units are the newest trend in health policy.
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Department of Sociology and Political Science Professor Pl Erling Martinussen
This facility resembles a local community hospital in that it is situated in between a hospital and a nursing home and is convenient for patients' residences. As part of the Norwegian Coordination Reform, which was put into effect in 2012, Norway has been developing this healthcare product over the past 10 years.
Researchers from NTNU, SINTEF, and UiO have now examined how this service affects numerous indices that can show how well the Norwegian health system is performing. The news is excellent, too.
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