In this paper we briefly describe the results of a 3 year project examining the use of Health Information Technologies (e.g., electronic patient record systems) to deliver integrated care. In particular, we focus on one group of patient (the frail elderly) and efforts to design an e-health supported healthcare pathway (the frail elderly pathway--FEP). The aim of FEP is to bring together clinici...

Health professionals and government policy-makers have realized the important contribution that family members make in caring for the frail elderly in the community. How can we best support them in this important role? One method of offering assistance to family caregivers is through groups to provide education and mutual support. Interestingly, evaluations of the benefits of these groups, usin...

BACKGROUND The number of elderly people persons suffering from dizziness is substantial, and dizziness is a risk factor for falls and fractures. Fall-related fractures represent a major public health issue. Longitudinal studies can help find ways of predicting fall-related fractures among frail elderly persons with multisensory dizziness. The aim of the present study was therefore to investigat...

In this study, the authors use in-depth interviews with inductive analysis to develop a conceptual framework for exploring social exchanges and their implicit calculations for caregivers in Taiwan. They interviewed 12 caregivers, based on theory-based sampling and maximum variation. They found some components of implicit exchanges of the caregivers, and drew a framework to describe it. At the b...

To even the most casual observer, the elderly are a very heterogeneous population. Some individuals remain fit and active into their ninth or tenth decades, whilst others show evidence of infirmity during their early sixties in the absence of an acute physical illness. This dissociation of biological and chronological age represents a continuum bounded by, in the parlance of contemporary geront...

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