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| Title: | Coaching Older Adults and Carers to have their preferences Heard (COACH): a randomised controlled trial in an intermediate care setting (study protocol) |
| Authors: | Masters, Stacey Cynthia
Gordon, Jason
Whitehead, Craig Hamilton
Davies, Owen
Giles, Lynne Catherine
Ratcliffe, Julie |
| Keywords: | Australia
Geriatric care
Residential aged care
Hospitalisation
Support services |
| Issue Date: | 2012 |
| Publisher: | Australasian Medical Journal |
| Citation: | Masters, S.C., Gordon, J., Whitehead, C.H., Davies, O., Giles, L.C. and Ratcliffe, J., 2012. Coaching Older Adults and Carers to have their preferences Heard (COACH): a randomised controlled trial in an intermediate care setting (study protocol). Australasian Medical Journal, 5(8), 444-454. |
| Abstract: | Frail
older people
who are
considering
movement
into residential
aged care
or returning
home following
a hospital
admission often
face complex
and difficult
decisions. Despite
research interest
in this
area, a
recent Cochrane
review was
unable to
identify any
studies of
interventions to
support decision-‐making in this group that met
the
experimental
or
quasi-‐experimental study design criteria. This study tests the impact of a
multi-component coaching
intervention on
the quality
of preparation
for care
transitions, targeted
to
older
adults
and
informal
carers.
In
addition,
the
study
assesses
the
impact
of
investing
specialist
geriatric
resources
into
consultations
with
families
in
an
intermediate
care
setting
where
decisions
about
future
care
needs
are
being
made. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2328/26351 |
| ISSN: | 1836-1935 |
| Appears in Collections: | Flinders Prevention, Promotion and Primary Health Care
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