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A study of the effectiveness of inter professional working for community dwelling older people
This study examines the effectiveness of inter-professional working in primary and community care for older people with multiple health and social care needs.
It has two aims
- To identify appropriate measures of effectiveness from user, professional and organisational perspectives for inter-professional working for community-dwelling older people with multiple health and social care needs
- To investigate the extent to which contextual factors, such as geography, multiplicity of service providers, resources, presence of shared infrastructures, types of service commissioning (including direct payments to the user) and quality scrutiny and professional roles influence the sustainability and effectiveness of inter-professional working and patient, carer and professional outcomes.
The design has four strands of investigation undertaken in two phases
Phase One
- A systematic review of research evidence
- The development of a classification of models of inter-professional working
- A survey and document review to explore the range of structures and practice in IPW supporting for older adults living at home (England)
- Interviews and consensus event with service users to establishe service user defined outcomes of IPW
Phase two
Case study investigation of three models of IPW