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 ...

In the past, these home care workers would get recertified annually as their ... There are three ways to complete the assessment. A PPL subcontractor, Mobile Health, is holding a series of popup sites ...

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 ...

The average wait for a long-term care assessment in New Brunswick is 67 days, while the average wait to receive home support services is another 76 days, according to a new survey from the New ...