Nursing home geriatric rehabilitation care and interprofessional collaboration; a practice-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Frailty and multimorbidity are common among patients in geriatric rehabilitation care (GRC). Proper care of these patients involves multiple professionals which requires optimal interprofessional collaboration to provide the best possible support. Interprofessional collaboration (IPC) goes beyond multi-professional collaboration. It requires professionals to think beyond the expertise of their own discipline and work on joint outcomes in which the patient is actively involved. This study describes the development of the GRC teams of an elderly care organization towards the IPC.

Methods

Mixed method pre-post study of 15 months. The interprofessional training program comprised team trainings, webinars, and online team sessions. Data was aggregated by administering t

SUBMITTER: Drenth H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10478267 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature