The meaning of continuity of care from the perspective of older people with complex care needs-A scoping review.

People aged 65 years or older with complex care needs are at risk of fragmented care. This may jeopardise patient safety. Complex care needs are defined as care needs that require the performance of time-consuming processes such as reviewing medical history, providing counselling, and prescribing medications.

Measuring patients' experiences of continuity of care in a primary care context-Development and evaluation of a patient-reported experience measure.

Background: Continuity of care is viewed as a hallmark of high-quality care in the primary care context. Measures to evaluate the quality of provider performance are scarce, and it is unclear how the assessments correlate with patients' experiences of care as coherent and interconnected over time, consistent with their preferences and care needs.

Aim: To develop and evaluate a patient-reported experience measure of continuity of care in primary care for patients with complex care needs.

Taking command of continuity-An interview study with agency nurses.

Aim: The aim of the study was to describe continuity from the perspective of working as an agency nurse (AN).

Design: Qualitative design was applied using individual semi-structured interviews.

Method: Individual interviews with fifteen registered nurses working at agency companies were conducted in 2020.

Symptom Prevalence of Anxiety and Depression in Older Cardiac Arrest Survivors: A Comparative Nationwide Register Study.

Knowledge about psychological distress in older cardiac arrest (CA) survivors is sparse, and the lack of comparisons with general populations make it difficult to draw any strong conclusions about prevalence and potential changes caused by CA. Our aim was to compare psychological distress between older CA survivors and a general population. This study included survivors 65-80 years old and an age- and sex-matched general population.

Is the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) a valid measure in a general population 65-80 years old? A psychometric evaluation study.

Background: The HADS (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale) aims to measure symptoms of anxiety (HADS Anxiety) and depression (HADS Depression). The HADS is widely used but has shown ambiguous results both regarding the factor structure and sex differences in the prevalence of depressive symptoms. There is also a lack of psychometric evaluations of the HADS in non-clinical samples of older people.

Group discussions with structured reminiscence and a problem-based method as an intervention to prevent depressive symptoms in older people.

Aims And Objectives: To evaluate the effect of group discussions, in which structured reminiscence and a problem-based method were used, on depressive symptoms, quality of life and self-rated health among older people.

Background: Depressive symptoms in older people have a considerable impact on self-rated health and quality of life, with a high rate of co-morbidity and mortality. As the ageing population is growing, late-life depression is becoming an important public health problem and there is a need to find preventive interventions to avert unnecessary suffering.

Association between depressive symptoms and age, sex, loneliness and treatment among older people in Sweden.

Objectives: The objective of this study was to examine the prevalence of and the association between depressive symptoms and loneliness in relation to age and sex among older people (65-80 years) and to investigate to what extent those who report depressive symptoms had visited a health care professional and/or used antidepressant medication.

Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted in a Swedish sample randomized from the total population in the age group 65-80 years (n = 6659). Chi square tests and logistic regression analyses were conducted.