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Craig, Christopher, Chadborn, Neil, Sands, Gina, Tuomainen, Helena and Gladman, J. R. F. (John R. F.) (2015) Systematic review of EASY-care needs assessment for community-dwelling older people. Age and Ageing, 44 (4). pp. 559-565. afv050. doi:10.1093/ageing/afv050 ISSN 0002-0729.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afv050
Abstract
Background:
Undertaking comprehensive geriatric assessments (CGAs) combined with long-term health and social care management can improve the quality of life of older people [ 1]. The EASY-Care tool is a CGA instrument designed for assessing the physical, mental and social functioning and unmet health and social needs of older people in community settings or primary care. It has also been used as a frailty assessment tool and for gathering population-level data.
Objective:
To review the evidence of reliability, validity and acceptability of EASY-Care and its appropriateness for assessing the needs of community-dwelling older people.
Methods:
Systematic search of literature databases using pre-defined search terms (January 1994—May 2014) for English language articles reporting on the reliability, validity, acceptability and implementation of EASY-Care in primary care and community settings. Eligible articles were critically reviewed. Discussion papers mapping professionals' use of the tool were also included as these could be considered an aspect of validity.
Results:
Twenty-nine papers met the inclusion criteria and underwent data extraction. A narrative synthesis was performed, because there was a variety of quantitative and qualitative outcomes and characteristics. Reliability evidence for EASY-Care is minimal. Evidence for validity is good, and it has received numerous positive endorsements of acceptability in international settings from older people and practitioners.
Conclusion:
Evidence supports the use of EASY-Care for individual needs assessment; further research is needed for other uses. Of the papers that made statements about who should administer EASY-Care, the majority indicated that nurses were preferable to self-completion.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine | ||||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Mental Health and Wellbeing Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Older people -- Home care , Geriatric health care teams | ||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Age and Ageing | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||||
| ISSN: | 0002-0729 | ||||||||||
| Official Date: | July 2015 | ||||||||||
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| Volume: | 44 | ||||||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||||||
| Number of Pages: | 7 | ||||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 559-565 | ||||||||||
| Article Number: | afv050 | ||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1093/ageing/afv050 | ||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 30 December 2015 | ||||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 30 December 2015 | ||||||||||
| Funder: | National Institute for Health Research (Great Britain) (NIHR) |
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