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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 […]

Striking the balance between cost containment and high-quality care

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Professor Karl Swedberg has worked alongside a consortium of experts to produce a roadmap on cost containment for healthcare in the EU.

Professor Karl Swedberg at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, collaborated with a consortium of experts to produce a roadmap on cost containment for healthcare in the EU. The roadmap included ways to model proposed changes to see how they would impact on factors such as person-centred care and health promotion. The group’s work will help develop healthcare systems that offer […]