Nicola Cornally

TL;DR: The Walker and Avant method of concept analysis was used to guide the analysis and help-seeking behaviour was shown to be a complex decision-making process instigated by a problem that challenges personal abilities.

TL;DR: While ACP interventions are well received by older adults and generally have positive effects on outcomes, this review highlights the need for well-designed RCTs that examine the economic impact of ACP and its effect on quality of care in nursing homes and other sectors.

TL;DR: This survey suggests that many RCF visitors experienced low psychosocial and emotional well-being during the COVID-19 lockdown, particularly on visitors of residents with CI and how RCFs and their staff can support visitors to mitigate these.

TL;DR: A review of case-finding instruments that detect older community-dwellers risk of four adverse outcomes: hospitalisation, functional-decline, institutionalisation and death highlights the present need to develop short, reliable, valid instruments to case-find older adults at risk in the community.

TL;DR: The most significant demographic and clinical factors associated with help-seeking were increasing age, female gender, pain severity and disability and Psychosocial factors included past help seeking, outcome expectancy, age-related beliefs, social cost and social influence.