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Health promotion for mild frailty based on behaviour change: perceptions of older people and service providers
(2019-09)
Mild frailty is common among older people, but it is potentially reversible with health promotion interventions. Behaviour change may be a key to preventing progression of frailty; however, we know little about what ...
Moving upstream in health promoting policies for older people with early frailty in England? A policy analysis
(2018-07-01)
Objectives: Globally, populations are rapidly ageing and countries have developed health promotion and wellbeing strategies to address increasing demand for health care and old-age support. The older population is not ...
Home-based health promotion for older people with mild frailty (HomeHealth): intervention development and feasibility Randomised Controlled Trial
(National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), 2017-12-01)
Abstract Background: Mild or pre-frailty is common yet potentially reversible. Preventing progression to worsening frailty may benefit individuals and lower health/social care costs. However, we know little about effective ...
Health promotion interventions for community-dwelling older people with mild or pre-frailty: A systematic review and meta-analysis
(2017-07-20)
Abstract Background: Mild or pre-frailty is common and associated with increased risks of hospitalisation, functional decline, moves to long-term care, and death. Little is known about the effectiveness of health promotion ...
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 ...
Reducing and managing faecal incontinence in people with advanced dementia who are resident in care homes : protocol for a realist synthesis
(2015-07-10)
Faecal incontinence (FI) is the involuntary loss of liquid or solid stool that is a social or hygienic problem. The prevalence of FI in residents of care homes is high, but it is not an inevitable consequence of old age ...
Changing practice in dementia care in the community : developing and testing evidence-based interventions, from timely diagnosis to end of life (EVIDEM)
(National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), 2015-05-06)
Background: The needs of people with dementia and their carers are inadequately addressed at all key points in the illness trajectory, from diagnosis through to end-of-life care. The EVIDEM (Evidence-based Interventions ...
Specialist nursing and community support for the carers of people with dementia living at home : an evidence synthesis
(2015-02-16)
Specialist nurses are one way of providing support for family carers of people with dementia, but relatively little is known about what these roles achieve, or if they are more effective than roles that do not require a ...
An evaluation of the role of the Admiral Nurse : a systematic evidence synthesis to inform service delivery and research
(Dementia UK, 2013-10-17)
Two thirds of people with dementia live in the community and receive support from family members. There is a great deal of evidence to suggest that caring for a person with dementia impacts on the health and wellbeing of ...
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 ...