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 ...

Funding for a vital Medicare program has lapsed—forcing some patients out of their homes and exposing cracks in America’s ...

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 ...

For most home care companies, having to terminate services with a client is rare. However, when these instances do occur, ...

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 ...

Hal Swerissen has received funding from NHMRC and ARC funding in relation to aged care, primary care and public health. He is Deputy Chair of the Bendigo Kangan Institute and a member of 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 ...