Erschienen in:
10.02.2018 | Editorial
Involving Primary Care Health Professionals in Geriatric Assessment
verfasst von:
B. Fougère, M. Cesari, H. Arai, J. Woo, R. A. Merchant, L. Flicker, A. Cherubini, J. M. Bauer, B. Vellas, J. E. Morley
Erschienen in:
The journal of nutrition, health & aging
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Ausgabe 5/2018
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Excerpt
The screening and management of geriatric conditions, such as frailty and cognitive impairment, are now priorities, and their implementation in the clinical routine can no longer be ignored. Primary care is the first contact point of health services for community-dwelling individuals in many countries (
1). It is a core component of the healthcare system where preventive strategies and care for the frail persons usually occur. Unfortunately, a good proportion of health professionals acting in this setting still have very limited training on geriatric principles and caring for older adults with geriatric syndromes and multi-morbidity. In addition, the resources from primary care practitioners that they can afford to spend for these purposes are often sparse. In order to promote a more geriatric responsive culture, a number of brief screening instruments for age-related conditions has been developed over the last few years (
2,
3). These include the Rapid Geriatric Assessment that has been developed in United-States; the Gerontopôle screening tool in Toulouse; the Kihon Checklist (KCL) in Japan; the Vulnerable Elders 13 Survey (VES-13); and the Easycare Twostep Older persons Screening (Easycare-TOS) in the United Kingdom. …
