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Identifying acceptable components for home-based health promotion services for older people with mild frailty: A qualitative study
(2017-12-05)
Abstract Mild frailty is common in later life, increasing the risk of hospitalisation, loss of independence and premature death. Targeted health promotion services may reduce adverse outcomes and increase quality of life, ...
Identifying the content of home-based health behaviour change interventions for frail older people : A systematic review protocol
(2015-11-04)
Background: Meeting the needs of the growing number of older people is a challenge for health and social care services. Home-based interventions aiming to modify health-related behaviours of frail older people have the ...
Living in Uncertain Times: trajectories to death in residential care homes
(2014-09-01)
Abstract Background Older people living in care homes often have limited life expectancy. Practitioners and policymakers are increasingly questioning the appropriateness of many acute hospital admissions and the quality ...
The effectiveness of inter-professional working for older people living in the community : A systematic review
(2013)
Health and social care policy in the UK advocates inter-professional working (IPW) to support older people with complex and multiple needs. Whilst there is a growing understanding of what supports IPW, there is a lack of ...
An uncertain future : The unchanging views of care home residents about living and dying
(2012-07-05)
BACKGROUND: Older people living in a care home have a limited life expectancy, and care homes are an important setting for end-of-life care provision. AIM: This research aimed to explore the views, experiences and expectations ...
Nurse-led case management in the National Health Service : bridging clinical and social worlds
(2012)
To understand the effects of Nurse Case Managers (NCMs) working in primary care in the English National Health Service (NHS) from multiple perspectives and how this new role impacts on social workers, this paper reports ...
Nurse case management and general practice : implications for GP consortia
(2011-10)
Reducing hospital admission rates by nurse-led case management (community matrons) is attractive in theory but in practice is challenging for a range of reasons that need to be understood in commissioning similar services ...
Frailty scales - their potential in interprofessional working with older people: a discussion paper
(2011-07)
New models of interprofessional working are continuously being proposed to address the burgeoning health and social care needs of older people with complex and long-term health conditions. Evaluations of the effectiveness ...