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Screening frailty: A predictor of healthcare requirements in older people

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Mateo-Abad and Vergara explore a new intervention for people with frailty to improve their functional capacity and delay the occurrence of adverse events related with frailty.

People are living longer, and this is associated with increased pressure on healthcare services. Assessing how much support people need allows resources to be used effectively and patients to receive the best care. Frailty is associated with poorer health and more complications – but the condition can be hard to characterise. Maider Mateo-Abad and Dr Itziar Vergara at the Biodonostia […]

Transitional care programs for older adults: Improving Canada’s core health services

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Dr Lori Weeks and colleagues conducted a study into the provision of transitional care programs in Canada and abroad, highlighting the need to build these services into the core healthcare system

Transitional care programs are critical for ensuring better health management and continuity of care, oftentimes when older adult patients are required to move between healthcare services and settings and are most vulnerable to worse health outcomes. Transitional care programs are also found to be beneficial in reducing acute-care health resources and costs in countries around the world, however, for numerous […]