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Tag Archives: Ageing and Long-Term Care: Projections
Screening For Frailty: as Easy as eFI? (NHS England / Age and Ageing)
Summary The “electronic Frailty Index (eFI)” is discussed, by NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Older People and Person Centred Integrated Care, as a validated tool which might assist in the proactive identification, diagnosis and management of frailty. Potentially, the … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, Diagnosis, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Statistics, Systematic Reviews, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Academic Unit of Elderly Care and Rehabilitation: University of Leeds, Age and Ageing, Ageing and Long-Term Care: Projections, Ageing Population, Ageing Research, Amenable Mortality, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Avoidable Mortality, Avoidable Premature Mortality, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, BMJ Open, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, Bradford, British Geriatrics Society, Care for Vulnerable Older People, Care Home Admission Delay, Care of Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Centre for Reviews and Dissemination: University of York, Charlson Comorbidity Index, Commissioning for Older People, Connected Bradford, Connected Health Cities, Count-Based Multimorbidity Measures, Cumulative Deficit Frailty Model, Cumulative Deficit Model, Deficits Contained in eFI Calculations, Disease Counts, Dr Martin Vernon: Consultant Geriatrician and Associate Head of Division for Medicine and Community Services for Central Manchester, Dr Martin Vernon: National Clinical Director for Older People and Integrated Care, Dr Martin Vernon: NCD for Older People and Integrated Person Centred Care, Dublin, Effectiveness Matters, Electronic Frailty Index, electronic Frailty Index (eFI), Electronic Health Records, Electronic Health Records (EHRs), Faculty of Health Studies: University of Bradford, Frail Older People, Frailty, Frailty Identification and Frailty Care, Frailty Services, Frailty Syndromes, Functional Decline, General Practice, General Practices, General Practitioners, GP Assessment, Guidance on Supporting Routine Frailty Identification and Frailty Care Through the GP Contract 2017/2018, Holistic Medical Reviews (Automated Electronic Heuristics), Holistic Medical Reviews by GPs, HRB Centre for Primary Care Research: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), Identification of Frailty, Identification of Frailty (Routine Screening), Identifying People Living With Frailty, Identifying Vulnerable People, Improving Care for Frail Older People, Improving General Practice, Improving Quality in General Practice, Improving the Quality of Care in General Practice, Inappropriate Hospital Admissions, Independence at Home, Institute of Applied Health Research: University of Birmingham, Ireland, John Young: Academic Unit of Elderly Care and Rehabilitation at University of Leeds, Long-Term Care and Support, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Maintaining Independence, Medication Counts, Mortality in Older People, Mortality Morbidity and Wellbeing, Multimorbidity Measures, Older Community-Dwelling Adults, Older People At Home, Opportunities to Treat Patients Without Hospital Admission, Pathways for Frail and Vulnerable People, People Living With Frailty, Point-of-Care Screening, Population Health Sciences Division: Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland (RCSI), Preventable Hospital Admissions, Primary Care, Professor John Young, Professor John Young: Former National Clinical Director for Integration and Frail Elderly at NHS England, Rapid Screening, Recognising and Managing Frailty in Primary Care, Reducing Unplanned Hospitalisation, Rehospitalisations, ResearchOne (TPP Leeds West Yorkshire), ResearchOne Health and Care Database, ResearchOne Primary Care Database, Risk of Nursing Home Admission, Routine Primary Care Electronic Health Record Data, Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland (RCSI), RxRisk-V, Screening, Screening For Frailty, Screening Tests, Selected Conditions Counts, Shakespeare: Seven Ages of Man, Staying Independent, Supporting Older People Living With Frailty in the Community, Supporting People With Hospital Admissions, Supporting Vulnerable People, SystmOne (TPP Leeds West Yorkshire), SystmOne Electronic Health Record System, Targeted Screening, Targeting Resources on Vulnerable Populations, The Health Improvement Network (THIN) Databases, THIN Database, Toolkit for General Practice in Supporting Older People Living With Frailty (NHS England), TPP SystmOne Clinical System, Treating Patients Without Hospital Admission, University of Leeds, University of York, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospitalisation, Validation of electronic Frailty Index (eFI), Vulnerable Adults, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and Humber AHSN Improvement Academy
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Older Carers: Under-Recognised and Under-Supported (BBC News / Carers UK / Age UK)
Summary There are 1.2 million carers over 65 in the UK, a number which has risen by 25% during the past decade, according to Age UK and Carers UK. Care provided by older carers is estimated to be worth £15 … Continue reading →
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Tackling Long-Term Conditions: the Coalition for Collaborative Care (NHS England)
Summary More than 15 million people in the UK live with a long-term health condition. The Coalition for Collaborative Care (C4CC) was launched last week at the Future of Health Conference. This coalition of national groups and organisations aims to … Continue reading →
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Mapping UK Demographic Changes (ILC-UK)
Summary The International Longevity Centre (ILC-UK) has released a second summary “factpack” of statistics about a number of topics relating to the UK’s elderly. Projections indicate that future generations of pensioners face a poorer financial future unless the long-term challenges … Continue reading →
Posted in Charitable Bodies, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Housing, In the News, National, Northern Ireland, Quick Insights, Scotland, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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HEE’s Strategic Framework for 2014-2029 (Health Education England)
Summary Health Education England (HEE) predicts that changing patterns of care, involving more care delivered closer to home by a more integrated and flexible workforce, require corresponding changes in education and training. The HEE strategic framework for 2014-2029 addresses the … Continue reading →
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Reshaping Care for Older People (Audit Scotland)
Summary This audit from the Auditor General for Scotland assesses progress by NHS boards and councils in Scotland in improving health and care services for older people, looking particularly at developments through the Reshaping Care for Older People (RCOP) programme. It … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Scotland, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Elderly Care: Analysis of Long-Term Care for Dementia (ADI / BBC News)
Summary More than 35 million people live with dementia throughout the world, according to the World Health Organisation; more than half of whom live in low and middle income countries. The global costs of treating and caring for people with dementia are estimated … Continue reading →
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Flexible Hours for Carers: a Growing Care Gap (BBC News / Ageing and Society)
Summary An estimated 675,000 older people depend upon unpaid carers, usually their children. Jeremy Hunt has proposed that a cultural change is needed among employers so that carers have parity of esteem, and receive similar flexible working opportunities to parents … Continue reading →
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An Uncertain Age: Reconsidering Long-Term Care (KPMG)
[A brief reference to this item features in Dementia and Elderly Care: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (RWNHST), Volume 3 Issue 9, August 2013]. Summary This KPMG International report, commissioned by the Lien Foundation, is an attempt to prompt and inform … Continue reading →
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Prevalence of Dementia in Care Home Residents (BBC News / Alzheimer’s Society)
Summary A survey by the Alzheimer’s Society has discovered that more than 320,000 of the 400,000 people living in the 20,000 care homes in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have dementia or severe memory problems. This estimate is almost 30% higher than … Continue reading →
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