A randomized controlled trial of the effect of an intensive 1-year care management program on measures of health status in independent, community-living old elderly: the Eldercare project.

Background: Primary care practitioners are familiar with the frail elderly and commonly have to deal with their multi-morbidity and their functional decline, both physically and mentally. However, there are well elderly with high quality of life and very few co-morbidities who seldom seek medical care.

Objective: To determine if a nurse-based program of home-delivered care, linked directly with the primary care practitioner or primary care team, would improve quality of life, symptoms, satisfaction with care and utilization of community and medical services, in independent community living old elderly.

The healthy aged: Descriptive analysis by sex of cognitively functioning elderly patients 80 years and older living independently in the community.

Objective: To describe a population of cognitively functioning seniors aged 80 years and older who are livingin dependently in the community.

Design: Descriptive cross-sectional study based on the enrolment cohort of a randomized controlled trial.

Setting: St John's, Nfld.