De fleste hjemmeboende eldre hadde høyt funksjonsnivå. Men personer med mild kognitiv svikt hadde betraktelig dårligere gripestyrke, lavere ganghastighet og færre antall skritt.

Dei ferdigutdanna sjukepleiarane hugsar korleis det kjendest å vere den som kom utanfrå. Difor prøver dei å ha ei bevisst tilnærming til minoritetspasienten.

More and more studies are examining systems for early detection of clinical deterioration in non-hospital settings, but few have focused on older people and primary care.

Mothers who engaged with the ‘New families’ home visit programme, had more frequent contact with child health centres. But more than a third of all the mothers reported that they had received inadequate information from public authorities about the child health centre’s services.

Healthcare personnel can make decisions about the admission basis and treatment needs or hold care coordination meetings with the service user, and the community mental health centre and municipalities can establish accountability or negotiate responsibility, and determine which measures to implement.