Improved management of cystitis in primary care following the implementation of a simple multifaceted intervention.

Objective: We assessed the impact of the implementation of a simple multifaceted intervention aimed at improving management of cystitis in primary care.

Design: Quality control before and after study. SITE: Primary care centres in Barcelona city provided by the Catalonian Institute of Health.

A cohort study of the effects of older adult care dependence upon household economic functioning, in Peru, Mexico and China.

Background: While links between disability and poverty are well established, there have been few longitudinal studies to clarify direction of causality, particularly among older adults in low and middle income countries. We aimed to study the effect of care dependence among older adult residents on the economic functioning of their households, in catchment area survey sites in Peru, Mexico and China.

Methods: Households were classified from the evolution of the needs for care of older residents, over two previous community surveys, as 'incident care', 'chronic care' or 'no care', and followed up three years later to ascertain economic outcomes (household income, consumption, economic strain, satisfaction with economic circumstances, healthcare expenditure and residents giving up work or education to care).

A journey without maps-Understanding the costs of caring for dependent older people in Nigeria, China, Mexico and Peru.

Purpose Of The Study: Populations in Latin America, Asia and sub-Saharan Africa are rapidly ageing. The extent to which traditional systems of family support and security can manage the care of increased numbers of older people with chronic health problems is unclear. Our aim was to explore the social and economic effects of caring for an older dependent person, including insight into pathways to economic vulnerability.

The economic status of older people's households in urban and rural settings in Peru, Mexico and China: a 10/66 INDEP study cross-sectional survey.

Few data are available from middle income countries regarding economic circumstances of households in which older people live. Many such settings have experienced rapid demographic, social and economic change, alongside increasing pension coverage. Population-based household surveys in rural and urban catchment areas in Peru, Mexico and China.

Exploring the economic and social effects of care dependence in later life: protocol for the 10/66 research group INDEP study.

Background: In low or middle income countries chronic diseases are rapidly becoming the main cause of disease burden. However, the main focus of health policymakers has been on preventing death from cancer and heart disease, with very little attention to the growing problem of long-term needs for care (dependence). Numbers of dependent older people are set to quadruple by 2050.