Browsing Forebyggende hjemmebesøk by Document Types "Journal article"
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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 ... -
Hvilken betydning har forebyggende hjemmebesøk? - En kvalitativ studie av eldre menneskers erfaringer
(Journal article, 2016)Bakgrunn: Det finnes en omfattende forskningslitteratur knyttet til helseeffekter av forebyggende hjemmebesøk til eldre, men det etterlyses mer kvalitativ forskning for å forstå hvilken betydning tilbudet har for de eldres ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Older Users' Perspectives on the Benefits of Preventive Home Visits
(Journal article, 2015)In this article we explore older people’s perspectives on the benefits of preventive home visits (PHVs), after long-term follow-up. PHVs are health services intended to promote older people’s health and independence, prevent ... -
Preventive Home Visits for Mortality, Morbidity, and Institutionalization in Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
(Journal article, 2014)BACKGROUND: Home visits for older adults aim to prevent cognitive and functional impairment, thus reducing institutionalization and mortality. Visitors may provide information, investigate untreated problems, encourage ... -
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 ... -
Scoping reviews: time for clarity in definition, methods, and reporting
(Journal article, 2014)Objectives: The scoping review has become increasingly popular as a form of knowledge synthesis. However, a lack of consensus on scoping review terminology, definition, methodology, and reporting limits the potential of ... -
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 ... -
Self-care telephone talks as a health-promotion intervention in urban home-living persons 75+ years of age: a randomized controlled study
(Journal article, 2014)Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of a telephone-based self-care intervention among urban living individuals 75+ years of age by comparing self-reported perceived health, mental health, sense of ... -
The association between health literacy and self-management abilities in adults aged 75 and older, and its moderators
(Journal article, 2016)Purpose: Low health literacy is an important predictor of poor health outcomes and well-being among older adults. A reason may be that low health literacy decreases older adults' self-management abilities. We therefore ... -
The clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of home-based, nurse-led health promotion for older people: a systematic review
(Journal article, 2012)In older age, reduction in physical function can lead to loss of independence, the need for hospital and long-term nursing or residential home care, and premature death. Home-visiting programmes for older people, carried ... -
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. ... -
Understanding older patients' self-management abilities: functional loss, self-management, and well-being
(Journal article, 2013)Purpose: This study aimed to increase our understanding of self-managementabilities and identify better self-managers among older individuals. Methods: Our cross-sectional research was based on a pilot study of older people ...