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The effects of outpatient geriatric evaluation and management on caregiver burden
Author(s)	Jennifer L Weuve, Chad Boult, Lynne Morishita
Journal title	The Gerontologist, vol 40, no 4, August 2000
Pages	pp 429-436
Keywords	Informal care ; Stress ; Out-patients ; Needs [elderly] ; Screening ; Evaluation ; United States of America.
Annotation	Outpatient geriatric evaluation and management (GEM) is a sustained, intensive, interdisciplinary intervention that includes assessing a frail older person's medical, psychosocial and functional capabilities and limitations, and then providing comprehensive, interdisciplinary ongoing care tailored to needs identified during the assessment. In this study, 568 high-risk older people living in the community were assigned either to GEM or usual care for 6 months. Caregivers' burden was assessed at baseline and one year later. Caregivers in the GEM group were only half as likely as those in the usual care group to report increased burden in the 1-year follow-up. GEM can thus protect informal caregivers from the increases of burden that can accompany advancing age. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-001102214 A
Classmark	P6: QNH: LFB: IK: 3V: 4C: 7T
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