Preventive Home Visits Among Frail Community-Dwelling Older Adults. The Added Value of Follow-Up Telephone Calls.

Frail older adults aging in place follow-up telephone calls preventive home visits

Journal

Social work in public health
ISSN: 1937-190X
Titre abrégé: Soc Work Public Health
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101308228

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
16 Mar 2024
Historique:
medline: 16 3 2024
pubmed: 16 3 2024
entrez: 16 3 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

People in need of care and support do not always find appropriate services. This paper aims to explore the content and added value of monthly follow-up telephone calls after preventive home visits. We used both monitoring data and qualitative semi-structured interviews (with older adults, formal and informal caregivers). Results indicate that a majority of older adults (

Identifiants

pubmed: 38491960
doi: 10.1080/19371918.2024.2325555
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

1-14

Auteurs

Bram Fret (B)

Society and Ageing Research Lab (SARLab), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium.

An-Sofie Smetcoren (AS)

Society and Ageing Research Lab (SARLab), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium.

Liesbeth De Donder (L)

Society and Ageing Research Lab (SARLab), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium.

Dominique Verté (D)

Department of Educational Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium.

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