The experience of transitions in care in very old age: implications for general practice.

ABSTRACT:

Background

It can be challenging for general practitioners to support their oldest old patients through the complex process of relocation.

Objective

To provide a typology of the experiences of moving in very old age that is clinically useful for practitioners navigating very old people's relocation.

Methods

Qualitative analysis of data from a mixed-methods UK population-based longitudinal study, Cambridge City over-75s Cohort (CC75C), from Year 21 follow-up onwards. Interviews with participants aged ≥95 years old and proxy informants (Year 21: 44/48, 92%, subsequent attrition all deaths). Thematic analysis of qualitative data available from 26/32 participants who moved before they died.

Results

Individuals who moved voluntarily in with family experienced gratit

SUBMITTER: Scheibl F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6859521 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature