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Does a social prescribing ‘holistic’ link-worker for older people with complex, multimorbidity improve well-being and frailty and reduce health and social care use and costs? A 12-month before-and-after evaluation

AIM: To evaluate the impact of ‘holistic’ link-workers on service users’ well-being, activation and frailty, and their use of health and social care services and the associated costs. BACKGROUND: UK policy is encouraging social prescribing (SP) as a means to improve well-being, self-care and reduce...

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Autores principales: Elston, Julian, Gradinger, Felix, Asthana, Sheena, Lilley-Woolnough, Caroline, Wroe, Sue, Harman, Helen, Byng, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6764188/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31547895
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1463423619000598