1 Elder Care Services, Partnership for Healthy Aging, MaineHealth, Portland, ME, USA 2 University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, Chicago, IL, USA 3 Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA 4 Partners in Care Foundation, San Fernando, CA, USA 5 Project Enhance, Senior Services, Seattle, WA, USA 6 University of Washington Health Promotion Research Center, Seattl...

The challenges facing health care are well known. They include an ageing population, increasing expectations, and shrinking budgets.1 GPs remain key in the provision of primary care in the current model and report that they are failing to cope with rising demand.1 Increasing concern that the 10-minute GP appointment is obsolete2 in the face of increasing comorbidity adds to these pressures. NHS...

Collaborations between researchers, policy makers, service providers and community members are critical to the journey of health service reform. Challenges are multifaceted and complex. Partners come with a variety of challenging agendas, value sets and imperatives, and see the drivers for reform from different perspectives. Different skills are required for managing the partnership and for pro...

Dissemination and implementation (D&I) frameworks are increasingly being promoted in public health research. However, less is known about their uptake in the field, especially for diverse sets of programs. Limited questionnaires exist to assess the ways that frameworks can be utilized in program planning and evaluation. We present a case study from the United States that describes the implement...

BACKGROUND This study describes differences in trajectories of self-reported mental health in an ageing cohort, according to their housing, while controlling for confounders. METHODS The General Health Questionnaire was measured on six occasions as part of Whitehall II cohort study of office-based British civil servants (1985-2009); 10,308 men and women aged 35-55 at baseline. RESULTS Home-...

OBJECTIVES The increasing medical expenses of elderly persons in Japan's rapidly ageing society have become a major concern. It is therefore important to elucidate the factors associated with such escalation. Here, we focused on the relationship between subjective self-assessment of oral health, as an index of general health, and medical expenses (excluding dental repair) under the hypothesis t...

"Ageing in place" is a policy initiative strongly advocated by the World Health Organization to face the challenge of an ageing population. This pilot study used a "photovoice" approach, aiming to explore aspects of the housing environment considered by older people as important in facilitating ageing in place. It enabled participants to express their ideas through photographs. Each participant...