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| Autor/inn/en | Thomas, Roger; Worrall, Graham; Elgar, Frank; Knight, John |
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| Titel | Can They Keep Going on Their Own? A Four-Year Randomized Trial of Functional Assessments of Community Residents |
| Quelle | In: Canadian Journal on Aging, 26 (2007) 4, S.379-389 (11 Seiten)
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
| ISSN | 0714-9808 |
| DOI | 10.3138/cja.26.4.379 |
| Schlagwörter | Health Services; Intervention; Self Efficacy; Health Conditions; Caregivers; Functional Behavioral Assessment; Social Services; Aging (Individuals); Older Adults; Program Effectiveness; Program Evaluation; Mortality Rate; Institutionalized Persons |
| Abstract | Objectives: Are people 75 or over enabled to stay at home longer through annual assessments and referrals to health/social services than through assessments only or without assessments? Design: Randomized controlled trial. Participants: 520 people 75 or over living in their own homes. Intervention: Four annual RAI-HC computerized functional assessments. Intervention group 1: elders and primary caregivers received the results and were invited to take appropriate actions. Intervention group 2: elders and primary caregivers were offered referrals to health/social services. Measurements/Outcomes: Death, institutionalization, home care services, RAI-HC scores, self-rated health, perceived self-efficacy, caregiver burden. Results: By the end of the study, annual functional assessment and offers of referrals to health/social services led to a greater use of home care (6.3%) than did assessment alone (1.8%), but there were no significant differences in death rates, institutionalization, perceived self-efficacy, self-rated health status, or caregiver burden scores between groups. Conclusion: We discovered that this was a group of healthy seniors. Multi-dimensional functional assessment is time- and labour-intensive and should be targeted at the minority of least self-reliant seniors. (As Provided). |
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| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
| Update | 2017/4/10 |
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