Geriatric home-based rehabilitation in Australia: Preliminary data from an inpatient bed-substitution model.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The REStORing health of acutely unwell adulTs (RESORT) is an observational longitudinal cohort, including geriatric rehabilitation inpatients aged ≥65 years admitted to a geriatrician-led rehabilitation service at a tertiary hospital. The aim of this study is to describe a home-based bed-substitution rehabilitation model for geriatric inpatients, including patient phenotype, and health outcomes at preadmission, admission, discharge, and three-month follow-up.

Methods

A standardized Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment was performed on admission and discharge, including demographics (home situation, cognitive impairment, medical diagnoses, etc.), frailty (Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS)), mobility (patient-reported and Functional Ambulation Classification), physical per

SUBMITTER: Loveland PM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9306647 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature