Preventive home visits for older people

Preventive home visits and health – experiences among very old people

BACKGROUND As more people reach older age, there is a growing interest in improving old person's health, activity, independence and social participation, thereby adding quality to the extended years. Preventive home visits (PHV) programs for old people have received much attention in recent decades. A large body of research shows mixed effects, and argues that a home visit is a complex social p...

Feasibility and effects of preventive home visits for at-risk older people: Design of a randomized controlled trial

BACKGROUND The search for preventive methods to mitigate functional decline and unwanted relocation by older adults living in the community is important. Preventive home visit (PHV) models use infrequent but regular visits to older adults by trained practitioners with the goal of maintaining function and quality of life. Evidence about PHV efficacy is mixed but generally supportive. Yet interve...

Preventive Medicine for Older People

The experiment was initiated in the first instance for one year's trial period, in June 1958, with the approval of the County Council and the Ministry of Health. Care was taken, at the outset, to assure local general practitioners that there was no intention of usurping their own functions and that full reports would be supplied to them on any of their patients who were examined. No difficulty ...

Together toward trust : understanding interactions between caregivers and receivers during home visits for older people

Effects of preventive home visits to elderly people living in the community: systematic review.

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. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Physical function, psychosocial function, falls, admissions to institutions, and mortality. RESULTS Considerable differences in the methodological...