{"id":562,"date":"2018-12-11T20:26:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T20:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gerec.fi\/2018\/12\/11\/the-functionality-and-the-quality-of-the-geriatric-service-chain\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T20:26:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T20:26:38","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gerec.fi\/en\/the-functionality-and-the-quality-of-the-geriatric-service-chain\/","title":{"rendered":"","raw":""},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false,"raw":""},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The chain providing services for people aged over 70 and their families is typically experienced as complicated and inadequate. Also the implementation of the professional geriatric care often leaves room for improvements. As well as identifying the older people who…","protected":false,"raw":""},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_fi_post_content":"
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The chain providing services for people aged over 70 and their families is typically experienced as complicated and inadequate. Also the implementation of the professional geriatric care often leaves room for improvements. As well as identifying the older people who are considered to fall within a risk-group, they also should be offered the opportunity to receive a comprehensive geriatric assessment.\u00a0 The objective of this assessment, in addition to the medical evaluation and management, should include an individual health promotion and rehabilitation plan. When managing older people\u2019s acute medical problems, the emphasis should be in prompt and high-quality treatment in order to advance their recovery and to ensure continued living at home.<\/p>

The purpose of this research project is to examine the functionality and the quality of the geriatric services from the older person\u2019s view point. The focus of the research is in the following geriatric services: 1) preventive home visits and health checks, 2) home care and residential housing, 3) geriatric policlinics, 4) community health hospital services, 5) local specialist medical care and 6) long-term institutional care<\/p>

The material used varies from the Health Check information from Tampere and H\u00e4meenlinna to the RAI-information from the city of Tampere and from the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL). Also interviews with older people, health care personnel, management and local politicians are used for collecting data.<\/p>

Funding<\/b><\/p>

Pirkanmaa Hospital District (competetive research funds)<\/p>

Research group<\/b><\/p>

Principal investigator<\/i><\/p>

Jaakko Valvanne, professor, jaakko.valvanne[at]uta.fi School of Medicine, University of Tampere<\/p>

Postdoctoral researchers<\/i><\/p>

Lauri Seinel\u00e4, LT, lauri.seinela[at]uta.fi, School of Medicine, University of Tampere<\/p>

Heini Huhtala, University Lecturer, heini.huhtala[at]uta.fi, School of Health Sciences, University of Tampere<\/p>

Tapio Kirsi, University Lecturer, tapio.kirsi[at]uta.fi, School of Health Sciences, University of Tampere<\/p>

J\u00e4msen Esa, Clinical Lecturer, esa.jamsen(at)uta.fi, School of Medicine, University of Tampere\u00a0<\/p>

Doctoral students<\/i><\/p>

Milla Papunen, milla.papunen[at]uta.fi, \u2018Terve 80\u2019-project: health status, medication and overall assessment of medication in older people<\/p>

Elina Myll\u00e4ri, elina.myllari[at]uta.fi, The quality of older acute patients\u2019 treatment<\/p>

Jukka R\u00f6nneikk\u00f6, jukka.ronneikko[at]uta.fi, Home Care RAI as a tool for focusing gerontological assessment<\/p>

Publications <\/b><\/p>

Editorial, Suomen L\u00e4\u00e4k\u00e4rilehti:2011 Hoitoketjut toimiviksi potilaan ketjuiksi<\/p>

http:\/\/www.fimnet.fi\/cl\/laakarilehti\/pdf\/2011\/SLL322011-2227.pdf<\/a><\/p>

Editorial, Suomen L\u00e4\u00e4k\u00e4rilehti 2012: Riskivanhukset tulisi tunnistaa paremmin<\/p>

http:\/\/www.fimnet.fi\/cl\/laakarilehti\/pdf\/2012\/SLL32012-132.pdf<\/a><\/p>

Collaborators<\/b><\/p>

School of Health Sciences, University of Tampere (Marja Jylh\u00e4, P\u00e4ivi \u00c5stedt-Kurki)<\/p>

The City of Tampere (Eeva P\u00e4iv\u00e4rinta)<\/p>

The City of H\u00e4meenlinna (Ulla Helin)<\/p>

The Pirkanmaa Hospital District (Tuuli L\u00f6fgren)<\/p>

National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Health and Social Services, Aging and Services (Harriet Finne-Soveri, Anja Noro)<\/p> <\/div> ","_fi_post_name":"the-functionality-and-the-quality-of-the-geriatric-service-chain","_fi_post_excerpt":"","_fi_post_title":"The functionality and the quality of the geriatric service chain","_en_post_content":"","_en_post_name":"","_en_post_excerpt":"","_en_post_title":"","edit_language":"en","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yleinen","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gerec.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gerec.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gerec.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gerec.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gerec.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gerec.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gerec.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gerec.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gerec.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}