PURPOSE This article profiles the housing settings of frail elderly individuals, whether their homes are facilitating or impeding their ability to live in the community, and the change in disability and housing status before and after passage of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act. DESIGN AND METHODS The analysis relies primarily on statistical analysis of the 1995 national American Hous...

Purpose: Case management is a human device which’s purpose is to enhance the quality of services by improving their coordination. However, the case manager is not the sole bearer of the coordination duty; the first line medical doctor, the service user himself and his family caregiver may also contribute. The family caregiver represents a very important coordinator whose contribution to case ma...

PROBLEM ADDRESSED Family physicians provide most of the care for the frail elderly population, but many challenges and barriers can lead to difficulties with fragmented, ineffective, and inefficient services. OBJECTIVE OF PROGRAM To improve the quality, efficiency, and coordination of care for the frail elderly living in the community and to enhance geriatric and interprofessional skills for ...

THREATS TO THE ELDERLY Threats to those of advanced age flow from three sources: demographic change, the loss of integrity of the family, and the distortion of values by money. Demographic Change Fifty years ago, men and women 85 years old or older were a rarity in the United States. But the 1990 census revealed 3 million such persons. One million of these were 90 or older and 36,000 were cente...

This study aimed to characterize the elderly who naps according to sociodemographic characteristics and frailty. A descriptive, cross-sectional study part of the multicenter project Frailty in the Elderly Brazilians. We evaluated 1,866 elderly people using a sociodemographic questionnaire. The frailty was assessed using the phenotype proposed by Fried. The data were analyzed with descriptive st...

The Canadian Initiative on Frailty and Aging was initiated with the overall goals of furthering understanding of the causes, trajectory and implications of frailty and improving the lives of older persons at risk of frailty. This paper presents the current research on key policy issues related to the frail elderly.

BACKGROUND This study explored the effects of an integrated care model aimed at the frail elderly on the perceived health, objective burden, subjective burden and quality of life of informal caregivers. METHODS A quasi-experimental design with before/after measurement (with questionnaires) and a control group was used. The analysis encompassed within and between groups analyses and regression...

Policy on care in the community was founded on the premise that the care of frail elderly people with disabilities would be a joint responsibility for health and social care professionals, and family carers, supported by people within their social networks. The policy assumes that such social networks are common features of all communities in contemporary Britain, containing a reserve of people...