REPLY Age of material in a stock (SD6421)

[SDMAIL John W. Rodat]

Posted by  "John W. Rodat" <jwr at signalhealth.com>

Length of time of patients in a nursing home or institution can influence 
the potential for their discharge to home or other community based services.

The longer the time in the institutional stock, the higher the probability 
that patients' home supports have dissipated and  that they themselves have 
become "institutionalized." Once a threshold is reached, such patients are 
no longer candidates for discharge.

John W. Rodat 
Posted by  "John W. Rodat" <jwr at signalhealth.com>
posting date  Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:26:06 -0400