Objectives: To investigate how the request for nursing home admission is performed and whether Minimum Data Set\r\n(MDS) Home Care can contribute to the process of admission to a nursing home.\r\nMethods: Design: Observational study. Participants: Persons on a priority waiting list for a public nursing home (n=47).\r\nMeasurements: Inventory of the added information provided by the use of the MDS Home Care and an inventory by the\r\ngeneral practitioner.\r\nResults: People on the waiting list scored well for activities of daily living but live in a vulnerable home-care situation,\r\ncaused by severe communication problems or/and pain or/and a higher level of cognitive problems than expected on\r\nregular data.\r\nConclusion: The admission procedure to nursing homes has to be adapted. The MDS Home Care can be an additional\r\ntool.
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