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| Comprehensive geriatric assessment and home-based rehabilitation for elderly people with a history of recurrent non-elective hospital admissions | | Author(s) | David J Stott, Amanda K Buttery, Adam Bowman |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 35, no 5, September 2006 |
| Pages | pp 487-491 |
| Source | http://www.ageing.oxfordjournals.org |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Needs [elderly] ; Evaluation ; Admission [hospitals] ; Rehabilitation ; Therapeutic services [domiciliary] ; Longitudinal surveys ; Glasgow. |
| Annotation | Older patients with a recent history of recurrent non-elective hospital admission are at high risk of further unscheduled admission. In this Glasgow study, 84 patients aged 65+ with 2 or more non-elective hospital admissions in the previous 12 months were assessed for disability using the 100-point Barthel index and Nottingham extended activities of daily living (EADL) score. 56 of the patients receiving the new service were matched to 28 controls. Intervention subjects received a median of 19 hours rehabilitation over 19 domiciliary visits. At 3 months, there was improvement in median Barthel and Nottingham EADL scores in the intervention group; these improvements persisted in survivors at 12 months. This co-ordinated programme of geriatric assessment and multidisciplinary home-based rehabilitation therefore reduced disability in frail older people with a recent history of repeated non-elective hospital admission. There was a non-significant trend for this intervention to reduce further non-elective hospital admission. (RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-061211220 A |
| Classmark | CC: IK: 4C: LD:QKH: LM: N3: 3J: 9WC |
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