IT-assisted comprehensive geriatric assessment for residents in care homes: quasi-experimental longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Frailty interventions such as Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) can provide significant benefits for older adults living with frailty. However, incorporating such proactive interventions into primary care remains a challenge. We developed an IT-assisted CGA (i-CGA) process, which includes advance care planning (ACP). We assessed if, in older care home residents, particularly those with severe frailty, i-CGA could improve access to advance care planning discussions and reduce unplanned hospitalisations.

Method

As a quality improvement project we progressively incorporated our i-CGA process into routine primary care for older care home residents, and used a quasi-experimental approach to assess its interim impact. Residents were assessed for frailty by Genera

SUBMITTER: Attwood D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10949740 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature