particularly related to how care providers interact with older people and how components of care are delivered, their location and their cost. Further research is needed focusing on low- and middle-income settings, vulnerable populations, and caregivers. ...
For participants with advanced disability whose families and doctors were unwilling to burden them with full participation an ‘essential information only’ option was offered. This brief questionnaire was substantially smaller than the main questionnaire and took about thirty minutes to complete and includ...
The paramedics made referrals and contacted family doctors as necessary, which proved to be a useful resource for participants as some shared their difficulties with making appointments with their health care providers. Discussion The objective of this study was to investigate the telephone adaptation ...
I always ask my children [to accompany me] to go [to seek pain treatment] …“Let’s accompany me to go [to see doctors]. [let’s take mum to] go to this place, go to that place,” I said to my children …. Wherever people say it’s good, I ask my children to take me [...
Alternatively, an African-American participant in a NH discussed having no role in the decision making of LTSS use and the decision being paternalistic: “They felt that I needed to come here. This was not a decision I made. The doctors talked my family into moving me here.” Participants...