Supporting and Enhancing Elderly Care in Private Aged Homes-Successful Exemplar for an Interdisciplinary and Intersectoral Collaborative Model in Hong Kong [electronic resource] /
DWK Tong, TKS Wong, SSS Lum, ISC Ho & ASF Lai.
- pp. 141-149.
It is estimated that senior citizens will account for 15% of the total Hong Kong population by 2016. With advancing age and increasing prevalence of chronic illnesses, majority being frail and vulnerable, continuous and rapid growth of long-term residential care is expected. In public hospitals, elderly patients constitute a large proportion of the patient load (over 50% of hospital admissions). To ensure post-hospital discharge community care for the institutionalised elderly, since 1999 the Hospital Authority has extended outreach geriatric medical and nursing services to private aged homes (PAHs). The underlying philosophy was that with empowerment of PAH carers and better-coordinated preventive and extended care, health outcomes of the elderly would be improved and burden on hospital service utilisation alleviated. The present study was launched so as to evaluate the effectiveness of such an extensive programme and provide information for further improvement.
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Advanced nursing roles, elders; Care delivery model; Community care; Continuity of care; Outcomes