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Social intervention and the elderly
— a randomized controlled trial | | Author(s) | Michael Clarke, Susan J Clarke, Carol Jagger |
| Journal title | American Journal of Epidemiology, vol 136, no 12, 1992 |
| Pages | pp 1517-1523 |
| Keywords | Living alone ; Social contacts ; Health [elderly] ; Services ; Needs [elderly] ; Morale ; Loneliness ; Social surveys ; Melton Mowbray. |
| Annotation | A randomised controlled trial was set up in 1985 to test the effect of social intervention over 3 years among older people aged 75 and over, living alone, and based on patients of a large group practice in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. A total of 523 older people living alone in 1985 were identified, interviewed, and randomised into experimental and control groups. A lay worker offered the 261 in the experimental group individual packages of support, aimed at enhancing their social contacts. The outcomes measures, approximately 3 years later in 1988 were: mortality; changes in physical status; demand for medical, paramedical, social and voluntary services; and changes in a number of subjective variables (morale, loneliness and self-perceived health). No significant differences were found for any of the variables with the exception of self-perceived health status, where the experimental group showed significantly greater improvements than did the control group. More importantly, half of the people in this sample declined several offers of help. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981214002 A |
| Classmark | K8: TOA: CC: I: IK: DQ: DV: 3F: 8LEC * |
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