Towards a global scale for functional ability: what gets measured and gets done—but are we measuring the right thing?

"...A standardised scale based on the #WHO ’s five domains should be developed and integrated into global #ageing surveys..."

#Aging #Care #Health #Geriatrics #HealthyAgeing

https://academic.oup.com/ageing/article/54/11/afaf323/8315880

Contextualizing Age-Friendly #Care Within Social Drivers of Health

#Geriatrics #Environment #SocialCare #SocialSciences #MedMastodon #Medicine #Aging #Ageing

https://agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jgs.70197?af=R

Opportunities to Improve End-of-Life Care in Assisted Living: Results From a National Survey of Administrators

#PalliativeCare #Care #Geriatrics #EndOfLife #Medicine #LongTermCare #LTC

https://www.jamda.com/article/S1525-8610(25)00498-0/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email

An overview of care #coordination elements for older adults with long-term care needs: A narrative review

"...Lacks information on how #care coordination works in low-income countries..."

"...Work overload, lack of time, and miscommunication are common barriers..."

#Geriatrics #LongTermCare #LTC

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167494325003346?via%3Dihub

Just seen another paper published on oral #frailty . I am wondering when we will get to a "feet frailty", a "digestive frailty", or a "friendship frailty"... 😆

This is nonsense to me.

Geriatric medicine should avoid constructs that, rather than providing a person-centred approach, promote a partial/fragmented evaluation of the individual.

#CGA #Geriatrics #FragmentationOfCare #IntegratedCare #MedMastodon #Research #Medicine

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=27676177