Embedding Patient Priorities Care in an Age-Friendly Health System

Creating Age-Friendly Cancer Care: An Opportunity for Nursing.

(From http://agefriendlyworld.org/en/age-friendly-in-practice/, accessed March 16, 2015.) Cancer care, like any healthcare, is delivered in agencies and institutions that are in fact communities with their own cultures and lifeways. Presently, cancer care resides in organizations that are poorly suited to the needs of older people. Contemporary policy directives note a significant lack of prepa...

Transforming our health care system: ten priorities for commissioners

Revised edition 30 April 2015 Introduction The organisations commissioning health services in England changed radically in April 2013. Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are now responsible for the majority of the NHS budget, controlling around £69 billion in 2015/16. Public health budgets of £2.8 billion have transferred to local authorities (although this figure does not take into account t...

Setting health care priorities in Oregon.

Setting health care priorities in Pakistan.

OBJECTIVE To describe a health priority setting exercise in Pakistan and its relevance to traditional medical care and care providers. METHODS Literature search of local and regional data was performed to identify priority health problems, those with high disease burden and with cost-effective interventions. RESULTS Major causes of ill-health were communicable (diarrhoea, respiratory infect...

Towards age-friendly hospitals and health services.

In this paper, we reviewed rationale for an age-friendly hospital (or health service) and propose our framework in detail. In a rapidly aging society, development of policies and programs to optimize people's wellbeing and function as they age is an urgent issue. Most older persons extensively use health care. Unfortunately, current practices are unfriendly and may even add risks to the older p...