How can we improve targeting of frail elderly patients to a geriatric day-hospital rehabilitation program?

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Pereira, Silvia Rm ^a   Chiu, Wendy ^b   Turner, Alyson ^b   Chevalier, Stephanie ^b   Joseph, Lawrence ^b   Huang, Allen R ^b   Morais, Jose A ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DAY CARE; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DAY CARE; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 78049347810     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-10-82     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Older people in transition from illness to health: trajectories of recovery. M Godfrey J Townsend, Qual Health Res 2008 18 939 51 10.1177/1049732308318038 18552320
2. Don't seize the day hospital! Recent research on the effectiveness of day hospitals for older people with mental health problems. J Hoe K Ashaye M Orrell, Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 2005 20 694 8 10.1002/gps.1348 16021660
3. Systematic review of day hospital care for elderly people. The Day Hospital Group. A Forster J Young P Langhorne, BMJ 1999 318 837 41 10092260
4. The day hospital in old age psychiatry: The case against. C Fasey, Int J Geriatr Pyschiatry 1994 9 519 23 10.1002/gps.930090703 (Pubitemid 24211881)
5. Economic evaluation of a geriatric day hospital: cost-benefit analysis based on functional autonomy changes. M Tousignant R Hebert J Desrosiers MJ Hollander, Age Ageing 2003 32 53 9 10.1093/ageing/32.1.53 12540349
6. Predictors of rehabilitation outcomes in frail patients treated in a geriatric hospital. F Landi R Bernabei A Russo G Zuccal G Onder L Carosella M Cesari A Cocchi, J Am Geriatr Soc 2002 50 679 84 10.1046/j.1532-5415.2002.50162. x 11982668
7. Three-month follow up of patients discharged from a geriatric day hospital. M Malone A Hill G Smith, Age Ageing 2002 31 471 5 10.1093/ageing/31.6. 471 12446295
8. OARS methodology. A decade of experience in geriatric assessment. LK George GG Fillenbaum, J Am Geriatr Soc 1985 33 607 15 4031339
9. "Mini-mental state". A practical method for grading the cognitive state of patients for the clinician. MF Folstein SE Folstein PR McHugh, J Psychiatr Res 1975 12 189 98 10.1016/0022-3956(75)90026-6 1202204
10. The timed "Up & Go": a test of basic functional mobility for frail elderly persons. D Podsiadlo S Richardson, J Am Geriatr Soc 1991 39 142 8 1991946
11. Two-, six-, and 12-minute walking tests in respiratory disease. RJ Butland J Pang ER Gross AA Woodcock DM Geddes, Br Med J (Clin Res Ed) 1982 284 1607 8 10.1136/bmj.284.6329.1607 6805625
12. Community ambulation in patients with chronic stroke: how is it related to gait speed? IG van de Port G Kwakkel E Lindeman, J Rehabil Med 2008 40 23 7 10.2340/16501977-0114 18176733
13. Falls in a rehabilitation setting: functional independence and fall risk. A Saverino E Benevolo M Ottonello E Zsirai P Sessarego, Eura Medicophys 2006 42 179 84 17039213
14. Midlife hand grip strength as a predictor of old age disability. T Rantanen JM Guralnik D Foley K Masaki S Leveille JD Curb L White, JAMA 1999 281 558 60 10.1001/jama.281.6.558 10022113
15. EuroQuol - a new facility for measurement of health-related quality of live. The EuroQuol Group, Health Policy 1990 199 208 10109801
16. Optimizing cutoff scores for the Barthel index and the modified Rankin scale for defining outcome in acute stroke trials. M Uyttenboogaart RE Stewart PC Vroomen J De Keyser GJ Luijckx, Stroke 2005 36 1984 7 10.1161/01.STR. 0000177872.87960.61 16081854
17. [The Geriatric Day-Care assistance mode: functional effects in a six month multidisciplinary health care program]. SE Franciulli NA Ricci ND Lemos RC Cordeiro JM Gazzola, Cien Saude Colet 2007 12 373 80 17680092
18. Effects of exercise on neurobehavioral function in community-dwelling older people more than 75 years of age. K Okumiya K Matsubayashi T Wada S Kimura Y Doi T Ozawa, J Am Geriatr Soc 1996 44 569 72 8617907
19. A prospective trial of serial gait speed as a measure of rehabilitation in the elderly. PJ Friedman DE Richmond JJ Baskett, Age Ageing 1988 17 227 35 10.1093/ageing/17.4.227 3177082
20. The 6-minute walk: a new measure of exercise capacity in patients with chronic heart failure. GH Guyatt MJ Sullivan PJ Thompson EL Fallen SO Pugsley DW Taylor LB Berman, Can Med Assoc J 1985 132 919 23 3978515
21. Frailty in older adults: evidence for a phenotype. LP Fried CM Tangen J Walston AB Newman C Hirsch J Gottdiener T Seeman R Tracy WJ Kop G Burke MA McBurnie, J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2001 56 146 56 11253156
22. Integrated multidisciplinary diagnostic approach for dementia care: randomised controlled trial. CA Wolfs A Kessels CD Dirksen JL Severens FR Verhey, Br J Psychiatry 2008 192 300 5 10.1192/bjp.bp.107.035204 18378994
23. A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: development and validation. ME Charlson P Pompei KL Ales CR MacKenzie, J Chronic Dis 1987 40 373 83 10.1016/0021-9681(87)90171-8 3558716
24. Bayes Factors. R Kass A Raffery, JASA 1995 90 773 95
25. Programme evaluation of a geriatric rehabilitation day hospital. A Hershkovitz D Gottlieb Y Beloosesky S Brill, Clin Rehabil 2003 17 750 5 10.1191/0269215503cr673oa 14606741
26. Patient outcomes after discharge from a geriatric day hospital. RG Crilly S Lytwynec M Kloseck JM Smith T Olsen B Gold S Masse, Can J Aging 2005 24 305 9 10.1353/cja.2005.0076 16421854
27. Outcomes of a geriatric rehabilitation program in a long-term care facility. J McCusker DJ Mundt AM Stoddard E Cole SK Whitbourne JE Simmons, J Aging Health 1989 1 485 506 10.1177/089826438900100405 10296070
28. Rehabilitation outcomes in frail older patients. JJ Baztan S Forcano M Gonzalez I Ruiperez, J Am Geriatr Soc 2003 51 281 3 10.1046/j.1532-5415.2003. 51077.x 12558735
29. Factors predicting stroke disability at discharge: a study of 793 Chinese. KH Sze E Wong KH Or CM Lum J Woo, Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2000 81 876 80 10.1053/apmr.2000.6279 10895998
30. Motivation as a predictor of changes in quality of life and working ability in multidisciplinary rehabilitation. A two-year follow-up of a prospective controlled study in patients with prolonged musculoskeletal disorders. B Grahn C Ekdahl L Borgquist, Disabil Rehabil 2000 22 639 54 10.1080/096382800445443 11087060