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Volume 9, Issue 3
1 June 2001
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Managing Community Care
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Review Article| June 01 2001

Keep Well at Home — the Over‐75s ‘At Risk’ Project Pilot

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Val Jones
Older People's Service Development Programme, NHS Executive
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Brenda Mulholland
Fulham & Hammersmith Primary Care Groups
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Sasha Shepperd
Imperial College School of Medicine
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2977-7119
Print ISSN: 1461-5436
© MCB UP Limited
2001
Managing Community Care (2001) 9 (3): 18–21.
https://doi.org/10.1108/14769018200100021

The Keep Well at Home method we have piloted is simple ‐ initial screen, comprehensive assessment, onward referral and regular telephone monitoring for those aged 75+ at risk of functional decline. Using validated tools, this preventative approach links health and social care and is proving feasible in practice.

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