Are typically questionnaires or scales at least covering areas like dementia, including both cognitive as well as non-cognitive aspects, depression, ADL, nutrition, substance-related and quality of life. The challenge is how to provide overall assessments given particular information in these areas, and finally, to provide decision-making on care levels and interventions based on these assessments.
Published in Chapter:
Elderly Care Cost Control using Observation, Assessment, and Decision-Making
Patrik Eklund (Umeå University, Sweden)
Copyright: © 2013
|Pages: 10
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3986-7.ch016
Abstract
Municipal and regional best practices for strategic planning and management of ageing is achieved by developing accurate socio-economic modelling tools based on rigorous design of information and processes. Demographic models enable analysis and prediction of demographic change, and socio-economic modelling, based on ageing information and process design, is sensitive and specific in particular concerning variables related to demographic change. Service forms based on observation, assessment, and decision-making are typically used in home care, adult day care centres, residential care, nursing homes, and/or wards. The suggested approach to socio-economic modelling-based strategic planning is both customer-centric with respect to information and process design as well as care-centric with respect to care management.