CASEPLUS-SimPat: An Intersectoral Web-Based Case Management System for Multimorbid Dementia Patients.

ABSTRACT: One main challenge of health care systems in future will be the care and treatment of dementia patients. To their advanced age, dementia patients do not only have limitations in cognition, perception, and articulation, but also suffer from several other diseases (multimorbidity). These patients have sophisticated needs for assistance, care, and treatment relying on different health care sectors. Well-known communication and coordination deficits between sectors are intensified in the case of dementia, to the above described limitations. Coordination processes concerning the transition of patients from hospitals to inpatient or outpatient aftercare pose particularly difficult. To show a possible future direction for improving intersectoral care of dementia patients, we developed the web-bas

SUBMITTER: Steiner B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7007915 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature