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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 ResearchBackground 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 +8 more
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A Review of Generalist and Specialist Community Health Workers for Delivering Adolescent Health Services in sub-Saharan Africa. [PDF]
, 2013 The health of adolescents is increasingly seen as an important international priority because the world's one point eight billion young people (aged 10 to 24 years) accounts for 15.5% of the global burden of disease and are disproportionately located in ...
Norris, Shane A +5 more
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Atención Primaria, 2020 Resumen: Objetivo: Evaluar el efecto de una intervención multidimensional en la percepción y el manejo de factores de riesgo intrínsecos y extrínsecos de caídas y en la frecuencia de caídas en personas mayores autovalentes que viven en la comunidad ...
Claudia Bustamante-Troncoso +5 more
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Adaptation Of A Delirium Screening Test For Elderly Adults Admitted To Emergency Departments [PDF]
Geriatrics, Gerontology and AgingOBJECTIVE: Delirium is one of the most frequent syndromes among elderly patients admitted to emergency units and, despite presenting well-established symptoms and signs, there are still diagnostic failures.
Simone Rios Fonseca Ritter +5 more
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Satisfaction with aging and use of preventive health services [PDF]
Preventive Medicine, 2014 Preventive health service use is relatively low among older age groups. We hypothesized that aging satisfaction would be associated with increased use of preventive health services four years later.We conducted multiple logistic regression analyses on a sample of 6177 people from the Health and Retirement Study, a nationally representative study of U.S.
Eric S, Kim +3 more
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Cumhuriyet Dental Journal, 2022 According to the data the World Health Organization (WHO) provides, the population has been aging more rapidly than in the past, and it has been reported that the number of people over the age of 60 exceeds the number of children under the age of 5. This
Emine Pirim Görgün, Kübra Güler
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The impact of ageing on expenditures in the National Health Service [PDF]
Age and Ageing, 2002 health policy makers in many countries have expressed concern over the pressures that increased numbers of older people will exert on health care costs. Previous studies have shown that, in addition to increasing size of older populations, per capita expenditures have risen disproportionately among the old compared to the middle age groups ...
Meena, Seshamani, Alastair, Gray
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Primary care and healthcare utilization among older Brazilians (ELSI-Brazil)
Revista de Saúde Pública, 2018 OBJECTIVE To characterize healthcare access and utilization among older Brazilians. METHODS Data are from the baseline wave of the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSI-Brazil), which is a nationally representative, population-based cohort study
James Macinko +3 more
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