Frail Older People
Cost-utility analysis of case management for frail older people: effects of a randomised controlled trial
... in frail older ...for frail older people that contained many of the character- istics of case management ...in older people with dementia, case management has been proven ...
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Palliative care for frail older people: A crosssectional survey of patients at two hospitals in England
... in older patients, which appears dominated by frailty conditions and repeated hospitalisations, suggests that significant work needs to be undertaken to assess if, and how, generalists can best support ...
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HSJ/Serco Commission on Hospital Care for Frail Older People
... help people age well, and to manage their own care where this is what they want and are able to ...stigmatising frail older people who do need acute care, or who feel unsafe about being ...
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Improving Hospital at Home for frail older people: insights from a quality improvement project to achieve change across regional health and social care sectors
... targets frail older people, and in- volves changes in the delivery of hospital and commu- nity ...by older people and their carers [6]. Admission avoidance for older ...
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Case management for integrated care of frail older people in community settings
... to people with dementia and their carers improves some outcomes, including reducing rates of care home admission and healthcare costs in the medium term, and improving psychosocial outcomes for carers (Reilly ...
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An Innovative Antiseptic, Antiperspirant and Deodourant Diaper for the Older and Frail Older People Suffering from Urinary Incontinence
... Background: Urinary Incontinence is a common symptom among the older and frail older people. Apart from affecting the quality of life and skin com- plications, the demand on assistance could ...
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The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of respite for caregivers of frail older people
... of frail elderly people in the industrialized world is ...these people and their ...for frail older people and their ...of frail elderly ...affects frail ...
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Identifying the content of home-based health behaviour change interventions for frail older people: a systematic review protocol
... for frail older people in community settings, written in English, and either published from 1980 onwards, or, for registered trials only, unpublished but completed with results obtainable from ...of ...
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Caring for frail older people in the last phase of life – the general practitioners’ view
... for frail older patients until the end ” as an integral part of primary care was worked out as a key category, flanked by central issues: “ causal conditions and challenges, ” which include patients ’ ...
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Explaining discrepancies in self-reported quality of life in frail older people: a mixed-methods study
... As frail older people still can have a good perceived quality of life (QoL), this might be an important entry for such a strengths-based ...were frail at least on the physical domain still ...
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One-year outcome of frailty indicators and activities of daily living following the randomised controlled trial; “Continuum of care for frail older people”
... the older person (80+), being independent means a lot for self-confidence and feelings of pride and satisfaction ...of older persons in Sweden, as in the rest of the western world, these findings of ADL im- ...
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Care services for frail older people in South Korea
... of older people in South Korea and specifically the increased need for formal health and social services for those who are frail and have no informal ...and frail older ...
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An evaluation of the effectiveness of a multi modal intervention in frail and pre frail older people with type 2 diabetes the MID Frail study: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
... for Older People (Luton, UK); Cardiff University (Cardiff, UK); Igen Biotech (Madrid, Spain); Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux (Bordeaux, France); HEXABIO, University of Naples (Naples, Italy); ...
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Geriatrician interventions on medication prescribing for frail older people in residential aged care facilities
... Conclusion: There was a moderate prevalence of potentially inappropriate high-risk medica- tions. However, geriatricians made relatively few changes, suggesting either that, on balance, prescription of these medications ...
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Ecological approaches to the prevention of unintentional injuries
... dwelling frail older people, which included a home environmental assessment, facilitating any recommended changes, and training in the use of adaptive equipment, especially among previously frequent ...
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Why Is Case Management Effective? A Realist Evaluation of Case Management for Frail, Community Dwelling Older People: Lessons Learned from Belgium
... First Mid-Range Theory: The Frail Older People Are Staying at Home Because They Feel Capable of It The first context where case management with a professional case manager is likely to a[r] ...
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Specialist geriatric medical assessment for patients discharged from hospital acute assessment units: randomised controlled trial
... The provision of specialist geriatric medical input was intended to overcome the inadequacies of medical care as previously identified, and we intended that liaison with other community staff and resources would enable ...
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The effects of a pro-active integrated care intervention for frail community-dwelling older people: a quasi-experimental study with the GP-practice as single entry point
... for frail older people starts with the identification of this group within the ...the frail indi- viduals related to the areas of prevention, care, cure, housing and welfare [13], meaning that ...
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Clinical outcome and predictors of adverse events of an enhanced older adult psychiatric liaison service: Rapid Assessment Interface and Discharge (Newport)
... This study supports that psychiatric liaison service needs to be enhanced and expanded to meet the mental health needs of the frail older people admitted with an acute ill- ness. Psychiatric liaison ...
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Medical crises in older people: cohort study of older people attending acute medical units, developmental work and randomised controlled trial of a specialist geriatric medical intervention for high risk older people; cohort study of older people with mental health problems admitted to hospital, developmental work and randomised controlled trial of a specialist medical and mental health unit for general hospital patients with delirium and dementia; and cohort study of residents of care homes and interview study of health care provision to residents of care homes
... in older people(1) as they measure factors that may affect health-related quality of life ...for frail older people in the Nottingham ...
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