Integrating change to better look after older people in the community

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Integrating change to better look after older people in the community

Ngaire Kerse

Ngaire Kerse

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Staff value the rationalisation of care, with the focus on proactive planning with older people

Older patients and primary healthcare professionals alike find aspects of the CARE Project enjoyable and worthwhile in improving patient quality of life and wellbeing. Ngaire Kerse, Diana North and Martin Dawe report

Older people are set to swamp New Zealand practices within a few decades; in 2013, there were 83,000 people aged 85-plus nationwide, by 2050, there wi