Australasian journal on ageing
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Review
Age-friendly care for older adults within rural Australian health systems: An integrative review.
To identify the core elements of interventions and models that facilitate age-friendly care for older adults within rural Australian health systems, and assess the extent to which these align with core elements of the Institute for Health Improvement's (IHI) Age-Friendly Health Systems 4Ms Model. ⋯ The IHI 4Ms Model appears to be applicable in the rural Australian context. More high-quality, systematic evidence is needed to investigate the core elements of age-friendly care across diverse rural contexts.
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The aim of this project was to assess the value for money of a modified unit within a residential aged care facility (RACF) for people requiring palliative care at the end of life. ⋯ A modified RACF unit could provide substantial cost savings to the health budget for selected complex palliative care patients.