Getting a "care assessment" is the best way to determine when an elder needs home care services. Caregivers can do it by themselves or get help with the process by calling their Area Agency on Aging ...

Medical Care, Vol. 38, No. 12 (Dec., 2000), pp. 1184-1190 (7 pages) Background. Optimal care for frail elderly patients depends on comprehensive assessment. This is especially true in the complex ...

Objective: To assess the risk of malnutrition among elderly people living at home and receiving regular home-care services using the Mini-Nutritional Assessment (MNA) and to study the characteristics ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Thousands of home care workers statewide have an Oct. 1 deadline to be recertified, but many are scrambling to complete a required physical exam in time, families and advocates say.

Background: In Canada, only 15% of patients requiring palliative care receive such services in the year before death. We describe health care utilization patterns among home care users in their last 6 ...

A prognostic tool may facilitate the early identification of older adults in the community who would benefit from palliative care in their final years, new research from Canada suggested. The analysis ...

Tracy Comans receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council for a Boosting Dementia Research Leadership Fellowship. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party. During the ...