Assessing geriatric capacity building needs in public hospitals in Mexico.

Aims: To conduct a needs assessment of public hospitals in Mexico to determine workforce specific capacity building needs in the care of older people.

Background: The older population in Mexico is growing rapidly. The healthcare system and workforce may not be prepared to handle the needs of older people, especially those with chronic illnesses who are also disadvantaged socioeconomically.

Healthcare professionals' perceptions of neglect of older people in Mexico: A qualitative secondary analysis.

Aims And Objectives: To describe healthcare professionals' perceptions of neglect of older people in Mexico.

Background: Mistreatment of older people, particularly neglect, has emerged as a significant public health concern worldwide. However, few studies have been conducted to examine neglect of older people in low- and middle-income countries.

Cost analysis of a home-based nurse care coordination program.

Objectives: To determine whether a home-based care coordination program focused on medication self-management would affect the cost of care to the Medicare program and whether the addition of technology, a medication-dispensing machine, would further reduce cost.

Design: Randomized, controlled, three-arm longitudinal study.

Setting: Participant homes in a large Midwestern urban area.

Medication regimens of frail older adults after discharge from home healthcare.

The purpose of this study was to examine the number and types of discrepancy errors present after discharge from home healthcare in older adults at risk for medication management problems following an episode of home healthcare. More than half of the 414 participants had at least one medication discrepancy error (53.2%, n = 219) with the participant's omission of a prescribed medication (n = 118, 30.

Nurse care coordination and technology effects on health status of frail older adults via enhanced self-management of medication: randomized clinical trial to test efficacy.

Background: Self-management of complex medication regimens for chronic illness is challenging for many older adults.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate health status outcomes of frail older adults receiving a home-based support program that emphasized self-management of medications using both care coordination and technology.

Design: This study used a randomized controlled trial with three arms and longitudinal outcome measurement.