Project dates:
Commenced: 2022
Completion: In progress
With growing numbers of older persons in many populations, there is increasing demand for collaboration between aged and primary care services with Specialist Care (SPC) providers to provide care at the end of life. With interorganisational linkages as the preferred approach to provide comprehensive, complex health care in palliative and end-of-life care, the aim of this review was to identify strategies for promoting interorganisational linkages, related outcomes for service providers and consumers (patients and their informal carers), and factors which influence the implementation of such strategies. Relevant databases were searched from 2000 to 2023.
Project outcomes:
At time of writing, this review is in the later stages of analysis and interpretation. We will be reporting on strategies used to form linkages between SPC and aged care services. Primary care services too will be touched on. We will also report on factors that influence the implementation of such strategies as well as any results of such implementation and facilitators and barriers that influence such implementation.
Funding / Grants
- Australian Department of Health and Ageing (ELDAC)
