Case management for integrated care of frail older people in community settings

Developing a model of short-term integrated palliative and supportive care for frail older people in community settings: perspectives of older people, carers and other key stakeholders

BACKGROUND understanding how best to provide palliative care for frail older people with non-malignant conditions is an international priority. We aimed to develop a community-based episodic model of short-term integrated palliative and supportive care (SIPS) based on the views of service users and other key stakeholders in the United Kingdom. METHOD transparent expert consultations with heal...

Acute hospital care for frail older people.

Reconsidering care for frail older people.

Preventive home care of frail older people: a review of recent case management studies.

Preventive actions targeting community-dwelling frail older people will be increasingly important with the growing number of very old and thereby also frail older people. This study aimed to explore and summarize the empirical literature on recent studies of case/care management interventions for community-dwelling frail older people and especially with regard to the content of the intervention...

Randomised trial of impact of model of integrated care and case management for older people living in the community.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of a programme of integrated social and medical care among frail elderly people living in the community. DESIGN Randomised study with 1 year follow up. SETTING Town in northern Italy (Rovereto). SUBJECTS 200 older people already receiving conventional community care services. INTERVENTION Random allocation to an intervention group receiving integrated so...