...Cristina Vidal-Marti Purpose This study aims to explain the evaluation of a training programme for older adults to make them facilitators of a memory training project. Older adults were trained as facilitators to respond to the need to continue training memory and promote the active role of adults...

... Evaluation Functional decline Self-management Health-care utilisation Health outcomes Globally, populations around the world are living longer and are ageing (WHO, 2022). It is expected that the number of people aged 60 years old and over is projected to reach nearly 2.1 billion by 2050 (WHO...

...Clive P. Mitchell; Gareth Morgan; John Gallacher Purpose The evaluation of primary and other care services for older people remains difficult due to the challenges of cost‐effective sampling and assessment of older people's views. The internet is an increasingly attractive option for evaluation...

... of a Dementia Collaborative Project in North West Kent. The project, working through a primary care practice, aimed to raise awareness of dementia and to facilitate early intervention and access to specialist dementia services. Using an evaluation methodology adopted by the Collaborative and working through...

... environment of care will only be created when the needs of all stakeholders are acknowledged and given attention. How such a model was used to establish the goals for the project is described, together with the proposed model of evaluation. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Assessment Care...

...Alison Culverwell; Alisoun Milne; Reinhard Guss; Jackie Tuppen Despite evidence that early identification of dementia is of growing policy and practice significance in the UK, limited work has been done on evaluating screening measures for use in primary care. The aim of this paper is to offer...

... resources for facilitating their safe and timely discharge home. This paper discusses the findings of an evaluation project undertaken in 2003/04 within two in‐patient intermediate care services. The service provided short‐term intervention for older people, with an emphasis on rehabilitation to enable...

... in Sheffield which provides respite care in the person's own home. The importance of user and carer involvement is highlighted and the need for new approaches to evaluation stressed. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Dementia Person‐centred care Family carers Respite care Service innovation Evaluation...