Project Safety Net: a health screening outreach and assessment program.
Although comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) has been conducted in many settings, its use in community-based outreach programs has been limited. We have developed Project Safety Net, a program that identifies low-income urban-dwelling frail elderly persons and provides CGA and appropriate referral. The program uses validated screening instruments and makes extensive use of a custom-designed computer program to provide information to the interdisciplinary team and for research purposes. During an 8 month period, 814 older persons were screened including high proportions who were widowed (51%) and who lived alone (66%). The effectiveness of this program remains to be determined in a randomized clinical trial.
Reuben
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Multicampus Program of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, UCLA School of Medicine.
Hirsch
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Chernoff
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Cheska
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Drezner
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Engelman
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Frank
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Schlesinger
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Siegler
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D000368:Aged; D002985:Clinical Protocols; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D016330:Frail Elderly; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D015141:Los Angeles; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011203:Poverty; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D012106:Research; D014504:Urban Health