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Low-level support for socially isolated older people: An evaluation of telephone befriending [PDF]

, 2008
In May 2005 Help the Aged and Zurich Community Trust launched a two year national programme ‘A Call in Time’. The purpose of the programme was to provide low level support and befriending services via the telephone to older people who are lonely ...
Cattan, M, Kime, NH, Bagnall, A
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Home hospice for older people with advanced dementia: a pilot project

Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 2019
Background Dementia is a terminal illness making the palliative and hospice approach to care appropriate for older people with advanced dementia. Objective To examine clinical and health services outcomes of a quality improvement pilot project to provide
Shelley A. Sternberg, Ron Sabar, Glynis Katz, Ronit Segal, Liat Fux-Zach, Valeria Grofman, Gery Roth, Netta Cohen, Zorian Radomyslaski, Netta Bentur   +9 more
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COVID-19 pandemic in long-term care: An international perspective for policy considerations

International Journal of Nursing Sciences, 2023
This paper identifies key factors rooted in the systemic failings of the long-term care sector amongst four high income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. The goal is to offer practice and policy solutions to prevent future tragedies.
Doris Grinspun, Jennifer H. Matthews, Robert Bonner, Teresa Moreno-Casbas, Josephine Mo   +4 more
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Correction to: home hospice for older people with advanced dementia: a pilot project

Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 2019
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Shelley A. Sternberg, Ron Sabar, Glynis Katz, Ronit Segal, Liat Fux-Zach, Valeria Grofman, Gery Roth, Netta Cohen, Zorian Radomyslaski, Netta Bentur   +9 more
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Health and Welfare Services for the Aged [PDF]

Public Health Reports (1896-1970), 1960
S AGE progresses, tissues tend to dry out A and the skin tends to wrinkle; cells atrophy and degenerate; the metabolic rate is lowered; reaction time decreases; and the repair of damaged tissues is slowed up. But the aging process proceeds at a slow pace in most people. It is particularly retarded in those who live moderately and plough back into their
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Financial abuse: circumstances of occurrences against older adults

Revista Brasileira de Geriatria e Gerontologia, 2020
Objective: To analyze the occurrences of financial abuse against older adults. Methods: a descriptive and retrospective cross-sectional study with a qualitative and quantitative approach was conducted through the analysis of 209 Police Reports (PR) of ...
Miriam Fernanda Sanches Alarcon, Vanessa Porto Paes, Daniela Garcia Damaceno, Viviane Boacnin Yoneda Sponchiado, Maria José Sanches Marin   +4 more
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Effectiveness of nurse-led volunteer support and technology-driven pain assessment in improving the outcomes of hospitalised older adults: protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial

BMJ Open, 2022
Introduction Hospitalised older adults are prone to functional deterioration, which is more evident in frail older patients and can be further exacerbated by pain.
Max K Bulsara, Christopher Etherton-Beer, Rosemary Saunders, Kate Crookes, Mustafa Atee, Caroline Bulsara, Beverley Ewens, Olivia Gallagher, Renee M Graham, Karen Gullick, Sue Haydon, Kim-Huong Nguyen, Bev O'Connell, Karla Seaman, Jeff Hughes, Seng Giap Marcus Ang, Debra Scaini   +16 more
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Costs of health care in the last-year-of-life in Colombia: Evidence from two contributive regime health plans

Revista de la Facultad de Medicina, 2018
Introduction: In USA, each year 5% of Medicare beneficiaries die, accounting for 25% of total Medicare health spending. Currently there are no studies addressing this issue in Latin American countries.
Sergio Iván Prada
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Age and Gender Differences in Health Service Utilization [PDF]

Journal of Public Health, 2005
This study of age and gender profiles of health care populations fills a gap in the research literature by providing a population study of both single health agency and inter-agency 'Shared Care' populations.It combines anonymous data to link individual cases across Community Health (N = 82 751), Mental Health (N = 19 029) and Social Services (N = 19 ...
J, Keene, X, Li
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Developing a Delphi Consensus on the Domains and Conduct of Brief Geriatric Assessments in Singapore [PDF]

Annals of Geriatric Medicine and Research
Background Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) is a process supporting a multidimensional assessment of the health and well-being of older adults and leads to the development of long-term personalized care plans.
Jonathan Gao, Penny Lun, Lay Khoon Lau, Woan Shin Tan, Edward Tan, Wee Shiong Lim, Reshma Aziz Merchant, Laura Tay, Yew Yoong Ding   +8 more
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