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Effects of preventive home visits to elderly people living in the community: systematic review
(Journal article, 2000)Objective: To assess the effects of preventive home visits to elderly people living in the community. Design: Systematic review. Setting: 15 trials retrieved from Medline, Embase, and the Cochrane controlled trial register. ... -
Effectiveness Of Home Based Support For Older People: Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis
(Journal article, 2001)OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness of home visiting programmes that offer health promotion and preventive care to older people. DESIGN: Systematic review and meta-analysis of 15 studies of home visiting. PARTICIPANTS: ... -
Home Visits to Prevent Nursing Home Admission and Functional Decline in Elderly People: Systematic Review and Meta-regression Analysis
(Journal article, 2002)CONTEXT: The effects of home visitation programs to prevent functional decline in elderly persons have been inconsistent, and the value of these programs is controversial. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of preventive ... -
How to Measure Self-management Abilities in Older People by Self-report. The Development of the SMAS-30
(Journal article, 2005)This paper presents the results of two studies carried out in order to design and test a self-report instrument to measure Self-Management Ability (the SMAS-30) in aging individuals. SMA refers to the core behavioral and ... -
Scoping studies: towards a methodological framework
(Journal article, 2005)This paper focuses on scoping studies, an approach to reviewing the literature which to date has received little attention in the research methods literature. We distinguish between different types of scoping studies and ... -
The effectiveness and efficiency of home-based nursing health promotion for older people: A review of the literature
(Journal article, 2006)Despite the large potential role that community nurses have in providing individualized health promotion to older people, there is a lack of consensus in the literature regarding this role's effectiveness and efficiency. ... -
Older people and preventive home visits
(Report, 2006)In 1996, national preventive efforts for the elderly were introduced in Denmark with a general offer of home visits by preventive staff.The focal point of the preventive home visits has been the functional decline and the ... -
Complex interventions to improve physical function and maintain independent living in elderly people: a systematic review and meta-analysis
(Journal article, 2008)Background: In old age, reduction in physical function leads to loss of independence, the need for hospital and long-term nursing-home care, and premature death. We did a systematic review to assess the effectiveness of ... -
Preventive home visits to older people are cost-effective
(Journal article, 2008)Aims: There is ongoing debate over the effectiveness of preventive home visits (PHVs) for the elderly. A municipality in the north of Sweden carried out a controlled trial of such visits. Healthy seniors aged 75 years and ... -
Effects of intensive home visiting programs for older people with poor health status: A systematic review
(Journal article, 2008)Background: Home visiting programs have been developed aimed at improving the health and independent functioning of older people. Also, they intend to reduce hospital and nursing home admission and associated cost. A ... -
Multidimensional Preventive Home Visit Programs for Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
(Journal article, 2008)Background: Multidimensional preventive home visit programs aim at maintaining health and autonomy of older adults and preventing disability and subsequent nursing home admission, but results of randomized controlled trials ... -
Forebyggende hjemmebesøg til ældre: håndbog 2008
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Multi-component health promotion and disease prevention for community-dwelling frail elderly persons: a systematic review
(Journal article, 2009)The objective was to investigate definitions of frailty used in studies of multi-component health promotion and disease-preventive (HPDP) intervention programmes for community-dwelling frail elderly persons and to review ... -
An integrative research review of preventive home visits among older people – is an individual health resource perspective a vision or a reality?
(Journal article, 2009)This study has two aims: (i) to explore and evaluate the health‐promoting effect of preventive home visit (PHV) by analysing the activities conducted during the PHV and the reported results, and (ii) to critically analyse ... -
Comprehensive discharge follow-up in patients homes by GPs and district nurses of elderly patients
(Journal article, 2010)Objectives: Many hospital admissions are due to inappropriate medical treatment, and discharge of fragile elderly patients involves a high risk of readmission. The present study aimed to assess whether a follow-up programme ... -
Elderly persons in the risk zone. Design of a multidimensional, health-promoting, randomised three-armed controlled trial for "prefrail" people of 80+ years living at home
(Journal article, 2010)Background The very old (80+) are often described as a "frail" group that is particularly exposed to diseases and functional disability. They are at great risk of losing the ability to manage their activities of daily ... -
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Interventions to prevent disability in frail community-dwelling older persons: an overview
(Journal article, 2010)This narrative review was conducted to provide an overview of the variety of interventions aimed at disability prevention in community-dwelling frail older persons and to summarize promising elements. The search strategy ...