Health Care for Older PeopleEditorial. References a study by Welch et al in the same issue of 'The Journal of the American Medical Association,' which focuses on health services for older people in the United States and Canada. Difficulties in cross-national comparison; What higher costs of ...
豆瓣评分 目前无人评价 评价: 内容简介· ··· This timely book addresses the health care needs of the fastest growing sector of the community. Written by three highly respected primary care physicians, it tackles the typical, and not so typical challenges in caring for older people through...
Healthcare for older people in residential care—who cares - Flicker () Citation Context ...ancer, and arthritis as well as for the prototypical aging diseases such as dementia and osteoporosis [3]. Despite this, our understanding of how old age predisposes us to disease remains rudimentary =...
Even those enrolled in Medicare have a harder time paying for treatment compared with older adults in other countries.
Stage 1 sought to establish the range of approaches used by NHS services to support health care for older people in care homes and to identify the implicit and/or explicit beliefs held by stakeholders which informed these various approaches in regard to what worked well or did not work. This...
A discussion of a project which has been developed at the School of Nursing & Midwifery at Flinders University in Australia to help improve the delivery of mental health services for older people in rural areas is presented.FullerProfessor of Nursing (Primary Health Care)School of Nursing & ...
The worldwide increase in older persons demands technological solutions to combat the shortage of caregiving and to enable aging in place. Smart home health technologies (SHHTs) are promoted and implemented as a possible solution from an economic and pra
When possible, people should verify the information contained in their EMR. People Receiving Care To help improve the continuity of their care, older adults and their caregivers (whether family members, people outside the family, or both) can take an active part in th...
Other models of home health care Several health care models have been developed as a way for people to receive home-based health care. The goal is to provide a higher quality of care and management that keeps older adults out of hospitals and nursing homes and allow olde...
This is a particularly important aspect of care for older people as felt, expressed and normative needs may be fundamentally different and vary as they become increasingly dependent. Co-production shifts the design process away from the traditional 'top-down' medical model, where needs assessments ...