Social functioning, polypharmacy and depression in older Chinese primary care patients.

Objective: This study aims to identify the relationship among social functioning, polypharmacy and depression among older patients in Hong Kong.

Method: Three out of 18 elderly health centres were selected using the cluster sampling method. 457 elders were randomly selected from all the patients aged 65 and over attending the centres, and were interviewed using the Chinese Minimum Data Set-Home Care in 1999.

Reducing utilisation of hospital services by case management: a randomised controlled trial.

A 12-month randomised controlled trial was conducted in Hong Kong to evaluate the effectiveness of case management provided to a group of home-dwelling, frail elderly patients (control group: n = 47; intervention group: n = 45) in terms of utilisation of hospital services by these patients. Significant reductions (significance at P View Article and Find Full Text PDF