Positive and negative outcomes of informal caregiving at home and in institutionalised long-term care: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Our ageing society is putting tremendous strain on public health and welfare programs to meet the needs of ageing individuals. Promoting informal caregiving is one way for policymakers to reduce this burden. However, caregiving may be experienced as stressful and is associated with adverse health consequences.

Effectiveness of a home-based cognitive behavioral program to manage concerns about falls in community-dwelling, frail older people: results of a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Concerns about falls are common among older people. These concerns, also referred to as fear of falling, can have serious physical and psychosocial consequences, such as functional decline, increased risk of falls, activity restriction, and lower social participation. Although cognitive behavioral group programs to reduce concerns about falls are available, no home-based approaches for older people with health problems, who may not be able to attend such group programs are available yet.

Change in quality of life of people with dementia recently admitted to long-term care facilities.

Aim: To assess which factors are associated with change in quality of life of people with dementia who have recently been admitted to long-term care facilities.

Background: Many people with dementia will be admitted to long-term care facilities at some point during their disease. It is currently unknown which factors are associated with improvement and/or deterioration of quality of life immediately following admission.

Effectiveness of interdisciplinary primary care approach to reduce disability in community dwelling frail older people: cluster randomised controlled trial.

Objective: To evaluate whether an interdisciplinary primary care approach for community dwelling frail older people is more effective than usual care in reducing disability and preventing (further) functional decline.

Design: Cluster randomised controlled trial.

Setting: 12 general practices in the south of the Netherlands

Participants: 346 frail older people (score ≥ 5 on Groningen Frailty Indicator) were included; 270 (78%) completed the study.