The Rising-Dom study is a project to evaluate the impact of home intervention by an experienced geriatric nurse on mortality and institutionalization of older people who fall. It is a multicentre randomised interventional study. The two-year follow-up will compare the evolution of two groups: intervention (assessment by the nurse and proposal of a care plan) vs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWith the ICOPE programme, the nurses received specific, theoretical and practical, training, that enabled them to broaden their field of competence. This approach has enabled them to expand and consolidate professional cooperation networks and to consolidate their, crucial, position in prevention in the broad sense of the term with the elderly. The aim of the Icope programme is to offer long-term monitoring of the senior citizen, as part of his or her life project.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDependency care is a real public health issue. The lengthening of life expectancy and the increase in polypathologies require health policies that are as close as possible to the needs of the elderly. The World Health Organisation has set up a program to encourage healthy ageing.
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