Primary care for older people.

Primary care Screening older people for impaired vision in primary care: cluster randomised trial

Objective To determine the effectiveness of screening for visual impairment in people aged 75 or over as part of a multidimensional screening programme. Design Cluster randomised trial. Setting General practices in the United Kingdom participating in the MRC trial of assessment and management of older people in the community. Participants 4340 people aged 75 years or over randomly sampled from ...

Eye care for older people

the global trend Worldwide, people are now living longer and birth rates are declining; older people are therefore making up an ever greater proportion of the world’s population. This means that the number of older people is increasing very rapidly compared to the overall growth of the global population. By 2025, there will be twice as many older people worldwide as there were in 2000 (an incre...

Health care for older people.

Expanding access to pain care for frail, older people in primary care: a cross-sectional study.

BACKGROUND Although untreated pain has a negative impact on quality of life and health outcomes, research has shown that older people do not always have access to adequate pain care. Practice nurse-led, comprehensive geriatric assessments (CGAs) may increase access to tailored pain care for frail, older people who live at home. To explore this, we investigated whether new pain cases were identi...

Acute hospital care for frail older people.