Evaluation of an Innovation in the Continuing Care of Very Frail Elderly People

Bibliographic Data

ID11200965
AuthorsJohn Bond (National Energy Action), Senga Bond (National Energy Action), Cam Donaldson (0000-0003-4670-5340, The University of Sydney), Barbara Gregson (0000-0003-4868-9137, National Energy Action), Ann Atkinson (Newcastle City Council)
Year1989
Volume9
Issue4
Pages347-381
Publication date1989-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAgeing and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0144-686X • E-ISSN: 1469-1779
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0144686x00013994
OpenAlexW2027908769
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited53

This paper describes the theoretical and methodological perspectives adopted by a multidisciplinary research group undertaking a government-funded evaluation of a United Kingdom innovation in the continuing care of elderly people. In 1983 three experimental National Health Service (NHS) nursing homes were set up to care for patients usually cared for in NHS geriatric hospitals. Drawing on different approaches to the evaluation of health-care innovations, this paper delineates an evaluation model which identifies four types of variables: structure, process, intermediate outcome and final outcome. The relationship of this model to the design of an evaluation comprising seven complementary research activities is described, emphasising the need for multiple perspectives and multiple methods in policy-oriented health-care evaluations

Business · Continuing care · Government (linguistics) · Health care · Multidisciplinary approach · Outcome (game theory) · Political science · Process (computing) · Service (business) · Set (abstract data type) · Sociology · Computer Science · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Marketing · Medicine · Nursing

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