PMID: 15374051Sep 18, 2004Paper

A preventive program for community-dwelling elderly at risk of functional decline: a pilot study

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics
L RobichaudC Roy

Abstract

A program has been designed to assess and survey community-dwelling elderly over 75, identified at risk of functional decline by a postal questionnaire. The objectives were to verify the acceptability and the feasability of the program and to explore its impact, mainly on the functional status. A randomized controlled study took place in an urban community where 99 participants were drawn from those having responded positively to two or more of the six questions asked in the postal questionnaire, previously studied in Sherbrooke, in 1992. The program consisted in a home visit by a nurse who administered a standardized assessment battery on risk factors identified specifically for functional decline. When problems were identified, experimental subjects were referred to their general practitioner or to other health professionals for diagnosis and interventions. The control subjects received the usual health services. Both process and outcome measures were utilized in the study. The process measures allowed to know whether the program was acceptable or not to subjects and if it was feasible when using the existing health care services. The outcome measures included the number of eliminated risk factors, the functional autonomy lev...Continue Reading

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Apr 1, 2008·The Journals of Gerontology. Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences·Ans BoumanPaul Knipschild
Apr 20, 2007·Journal of Advanced Nursing·Ans Nicolaides-BoumanPaul Knipschild
Feb 1, 2003·Journal of the American Geriatrics Society·Cathy A AlessiLaurence Z Rubenstein
Oct 21, 2016·Cadernos de saúde pública·Ana Luiza Flores SaengerLuciana Branco Motta
Feb 29, 2008·Canadian Journal on Aging = La Revue Canadienne Du Vieillissement·Sophie LaforestHélène Payette
Jan 25, 2014·Indian Journal of Psychiatry·Sarvada Chandra Tiwari
Feb 9, 2010·European Journal of Ageing·Ramon DanielsWim van den Heuvel
Oct 1, 2013·Dementia & Neuropsychologia·Marcela Lima SilagiLeticia Lessa Mansur

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