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Improving access to adult vaccination
— a tool for healthy ageing | | Author(s) | Jonathan Scrutton, David Sinclair, Trinley Walker |
| Journal title | Working with Older People, vol 18, no 2, 2014 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2014 |
| Pages | pp 58-66 |
| Source | www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/wwop.htm |
| Keywords | Immunisation ; Health services ; Usage [services]. |
| Annotation | This paper demonstrates how access to vaccination for older people in the UK can be both improved and used as a tool for healthy ageing. ILC-UK released a report 'Adult immunisation in the UK', which applied a UK perspective to a 2013 Supporting Active Ageing Through Immunisation (SAATI) report on immunisation. The ILC report combined the SAATI findings with a traditional literature review, a policy review incorporating grey literature, and the outcomes of a focus group discussion. This paper highlights the ILC-UK report's key findings, that: vaccination needs to be included as part of proactive strategies to promote healthy and active ageing; initiatives need to be explored that increase the rate of delivery of vaccinations; and barriers to the vaccination of health and social care professionals working with older people need to be removed. The report recommends that: the government should explore using psychological insights into human behaviour to improve the take-up of vaccinations amongst adults; the range of settings where older people can receive vaccination needs to be expanded; and information on the potential benefits of immunisation should be made readily available and easily accessible to older people. The paper calls for a structural shift in how vaccination services in the UK are organised. The paper also calls for a cultural shift in how society views immunisation and the role it has to play in the healthy ageing process. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150619281 A |
| Classmark | LLF: L: QLD |
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