Changing Services for Older People

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Integrating services for older people: a resource book for managers

The Barcode of Life Data System ( BOLD ) is an informatics workbench aiding the acquisition, storage, analysis and publication of DNA barcode records. By assembling molecular, morphological and distributional data, it bridges a traditional bioinformatics chasm. BOLD is freely available to any researcher with interests in DNA barcoding. By providing specialized services, it aids the assembly of ...

Performance indicators for hospital services for older people.

BACKGROUND standardised assessment is recommended in geriatric practice to improve patient care and generate quality data for audit and research. High level indicators used to measure performance of rehabilitation units suggested that more patients were discharged to long-term residential care from one of two hospitals in a Health Authority in South East England. OBJECTIVES to test whether th...

Integration of services for older people: back to funding

Purpose: To demonstrate that funding is an essential component of integrated care, even in a universal publicly funded health care system. Context: The PRISMA coordination-type model is actually being generalized in the Province of Québec (Canada) concurrently with the creation of Health and Social Services Centers (HSSC), a merging of hospitals, community centers and nursing homes in a local a...

After-hours medical deputising services for older people.

The proportion of general practitioners using deputising services increased from 38% in 2005e06 to 48% in 2014e15. The data presented by Joe et al show a concomitant increase in the number of home and nursing home visits by the MMDS for those over 70 years of age, with the booking rate rising over the 5-year period from 33 to 40 per 1000 people over 70 years of age for home visits, and from 121...