Integrated care for older people: guidelines on community-level interventions to manage declines in intrinsic capacity
30 September 2017
| Guideline
Overview
The provision of integrated care is key for older people. The WHO Guidelines on Integrated Care for Older People (ICOPE) propose evidence-based recommendations for health care professionals to prevent, slow or reverse declines in the physical and mental capacities of older people. These recommendations require countries to place the needs and preferences of older adults at the centre and to coordinate care. The ICOPE Guidelines will allow countries to improve the health and well-being of their older populations, and to move closer to the achievement of universal health coverage for all at all ages.
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Evidence
- Baldwin C, Weekes CE.
Dietary advice with or without oral nutritional supplements for disease-related malnutrition in adults. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2011;(9):CD002008. - Milne AC, Potter J, Vivanti A, Avenell A.
Protein and energy supplementation in elderly people at risk from malnutrition. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2009;(2):CD003288. - Munk T, Tolstrup U, Beck AM, Holst M, Rasmussen HH, Hovhannisyan K, Thomsen T.
Individualised dietary counselling for nutritionally at-risk older patients following discharge from acute hospital to home: a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Hum Nutr Diet. 2016;29(2):196–208. doi:10.1111/jhn.12307.
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WHO Team
Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, and Ageing
Editors
World Health Organization
Number of pages
46
Reference numbers
ISBN: 9789241550109 , 9789290619000 (Chinese)
Copyright
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO