Frail Elderly
Reducing avoidable hospital admissions of the frail elderly using intelligent referrals
... From around 50 years of age, the utilisation of hospital services begins to spiral upwards. In Australia patients over 65 years account for 46% of acute hospital bed days and 33% of hospital separations, although they ...
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Maccabi proactive Telecare Center for chronic conditions – the care of frail elderly patients
... Eligible patients identified by a computerized system algorithm were entered into the MHS Frail Elderly Patient Registry and an alert popped-up in their EMR notifying their PCP of their eligibility for the ...
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Exercise and health in frail elderly people: a review of randomized controlled trials
... a frail elderly sample based on current knowledge in this field, thus, dissociating this syndrome from ...in frail older adults, it is too early to support ...well-defined frail elderly ...
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Caregiver Burden in the Management of Frail Elderly Patients with Diabetes in Internal Medicine
... DOI: 10.4236/health.2018.1010107 1389 Health poglycemia. Our study is the first to our knowledge that describes a group of frail elderly diabetic patients and their caregivers’ overburden. Clinical trials ...
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Evaluating an integrated neighbourhood approach to improve well being of frail elderly in a Dutch community: a study protocol
... the elderly to find and are not visible to others in the ...the frail elderly have to depend on professional care, while infor- mal networks and social support are ...pendently-living frail ...
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Effects of comprehensive geriatric assessment on physical fitness in an acute medical setting for frail elderly patients
... Notes: The 0–3 months change presented as dichotomized variables, decline versus non-decline, which denote preserved or improved physical fitness. Adjusted analyses were carried out with age, female gender, Charlson’s ...
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Frail elderly patients’ experiences of information on medication. A qualitative study
... among frail elderly people and what can be done to improve the situation, which is important, since these people often have multiple illnesses, take many medi- cines regularly and consume a large amount of ...
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Refeeding syndrome in the frail elderly population: prevention, diagnosis and management
... context, elderly patients often are frail, which strongly correlates with negative health outcomes and ...disability. Elderly patients are often malnourished, which again is an independent risk ...
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The effects of a muscle resistance program on the functional capacity, knee extensor muscle strength and plasma levels of IL 6 and TNF α in pre frail elderly women: a randomized crossover clinical trial a study protocol
... Twenty-six women, regardless of their race and/or social class, above the age of 65 who are community residents and classified as pre-frail according to the criteria estab- lished by Fried et al. (2001) will be ...
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Design and pilot results of a single blind randomized controlled trial of systematic demand-led home visits by nurses to frail elderly persons in primary care [ISRCTN05358495]
... to frail elderly primary care ...PCPs. Frail persons aged 75 years or older and living at home but neither terminally ill nor demented from 33 PCPs were ...
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Integrated care for frail elderly compared to usual care: a study protocol of a quasi-experiment on the effects on the frail elderly, their caregivers, health professionals and health care costs
... Though widely acknowledged and pursued, the imple- mentation and evaluation of integrated services for the frail elderly has not yet reached its full potential. Much is still unknown regarding how services ...
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<p>Preserved physical fitness is associated with lower 1-year mortality in frail elderly patients with a severe comorbidity burden</p>
... of frail elderly patients with a severe comorbidity burden, even interventions that prevent deterioration appear to be valuable in a longer ...in frail elderly patients over a three-month ...
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Are frail elderly patients treated in a CGA unit more satisfied with their hospital care than those treated in conventional acute medical care?
... direct admittance to the wards (Table 1). The CGA involves physicians, nurses, occupational therapists, and physiothera- pists as active team members. This implies a broad focus on physiological, psychological, and ...
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An evaluation of the implementation of the new innovative integrated care concept for frail elderly
... importance to prevent deterioration of self-reliance and welfare is high. Furthermore, frail elderly are at high risk for development of functional decline(8). Therefore, the extent of frailty needs to be ...
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Factors associated with the utilization and costs of health and social services in frail elderly patients
... The individual-level data were obtained from a rando- mised controlled trial concerning a geriatric rehabili- tation programme designed for frail elderly persons [21,22], which was conducted during ...
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Differences in trunk accelerometry between frail and non frail elderly persons in functional tasks
... the frail elderly obtaining much lower minimum and maximum accel- erations than the physically active elderly in the y axis (see Table 2) during these ...the frail elderly have less ...
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Effect of single follow up home visit on readmission in a group of frail elderly patients – a Danish randomized clinical trial
... In summary, our study includes a very frail population, situated in a low socioeconomic area and examines a minimal intervention with one home visit only. Probably a more comprehensive intervention is needed when ...
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Process Mining in Frail Elderly Care: A Literature Review
... healthcare. Frail elderly people who have an increased risk of adverse outcomes are amongst the main users of healthcare services and understanding healthcare processes for the frail elderly ...
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STUDY OF SOME BIOMARKERS IN FRAIL ELDERLY
... our frail elderly may suggest its use in the diagnosis and follow up of frailty, a suggestion that still in its infancy and needs further studies to ...in frail elderly, which are markers of ...
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Cost and outcome of occupation-based practice for community dwelling frail elderly: a pilot study
... We propose two reasons that low frequency, short-term occupation-based practice may have been effective. First, it involved client-centered goal setting; therefore, the client’s problem-solving skills might be improved ...
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