Exploring the system-wide costs of falls in older people ...

Managing people with long-term conditions - King's Fund

managing long-term conditions across a population. Arthritis The current state of care quality to people with both osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis is difficult to determine given the lack of objective quality measures. However, the evidence suggests that care quality is currently highly variable and sub-optimal and could be significantly

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Case management: What it is and how it can best be ...

case management is the level of care targeted at those with the greatest risk of emergency admission. People at lower risk of admission can be targeted with disease management

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Long-term conditions Michael Parsonage and mental health

Introduction People with long-term physical health conditions – the most frequent users of health care services – commonly experience mental health problems such as depression and anxiety,

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The Autumn Budget - The King's Fund

The Autumn Budget 2017: joint statement on health and social care 4 o ensure that any increase in the pay of NHS staff is fully funded, rather than being met from within the existing NHS funding

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Measuring quality on the therapeutic relationship

2 Measuring the therapeutic relationship 7 Patient satisfaction surveys 9 ... and why? What about your relationship with your practice nurse, counsellor, receptionist, health care assistant, alternative practitioner, and so ... the therapeutic relationship against the creeping menace of managed care

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Managing quality in community health care services

monitoring quality, and serious failures in the quality of care in the acute hospital sector have further reinforced the focus on quality in recent years ( Department of Health 2008; National Advisory Group on the Safety of Patients in England 2013;

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MAKING SHARED DECISION-MAKING A REALITY

MAKING SHARED DECISION-MAKING A REALITY No decision about me, without me Angela Coulter, Alf Collins

Transforming the delivery of health and social care: The ...

TRANSFORMING THE DELIVERY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE The case for fundamental change Chris Ham Anna Dixon Beatrice Brooke

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Managing acute illness - King's Fund

An Inquiry into the Quality of General Practice in England. Managing acute illness Roger Jones Wolfson Professor of General Practice ... identifying studies that examined approaches to evaluating quality measures for the management of acute illness. The literature in this area was relatively ... performance) or to have unintended consequences.

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Patient Choice Final Report - King's Fund

111 Summary 115 5 How providers have responded to choice, competition ... NHS providers and overall referral numbers 2005–2008 97 ... London Patient Choice Project pilot, through the development of the policy relating to choice at the point of referral, and into its implementation as part of Choose and Book. ...

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Interventions for preventing falls in older people living ...

[Intervention Review] Interventions for preventing falls in older people living in the community Lesley D Gillespie 1, M Clare Robertson , William J Gillespie2, Sarah E Lamb3, Simon Gates3, Robert G Cumming4, Brian H Rowe5 1Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. 2Hull York Medical School, University of Hull, Hull, UK ...

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Falls: assessment and prevention of falls in older people

65 and older have the highest risk of falling, with 30% of people older than 65 and 50% of people older than 80 falling at least once a year. The human cost of falling includes distress, pain, injury, loss of confidence, loss of independence

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The Incidence and Cost of Falls Injury Among Older People ...

PAGiiSW Hee N AlTH The Incidence and Cost of Falls Injury Among Older People in NSW 2006/07 Acknowledgments The authors wish to thank the Centre for Epidemiology and

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What are the main risk factors for falls amongst older ...

Falls and fall-related injuries among older people are major issues for health and social care providers in Europe and indeed the world, because of the rapid increases in life expectancy observed during the

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Review and Ethical Analysis of Paper “Falls among elderly ...

Method: Review and ethical analysis of the topic of falls among elderly population. The main paper The main paper reviewed in is “Randomised factorial trial of falls prevention among older people living in …

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FALLS in older people - The Library of Congress

1 Epidemiology of falls and fall-related injuries In this chapter, we examine the epidemiology of falls in older people. We review the major studies that have described the incidence of falls, the locations where falls

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FALLS IN OLDER PEOPLE - World Health Organization

Health services impact and costs of falls in older people Falls are an important cause of morbidity and mortality in the elderly. Most often the cause of fall is multifactorial. Falls and their sequalae are potentially preventable and hence it is of importance to know the risk factors for falls in the

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Falls in older people - Arrhythmia Alliance Group

Older people at risk of falling are offered a multifactorial falls risk assessment.[new 2017] Rationale There are over 400 risk factors associated with falling, and the risk of falling appears to increase

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Falls and Older Adults - CDSS Public Site

Falls do not "just happen," and people donot fall because they get older. Often, more than one underlying cause or risk factor is involved in a fall. As the number of risk factors rises, so does the risk of …

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Prevention of Falls and Injuries Among the Elderly

4 prevention of falls and injuries among the elderly Table of Contents Highlights 8 1. ... 8 prevention of falls and injuries among the elderly It can happen in an instant: reaching on a ... numbers of people dying from falls has increased over the last decade, with

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