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Standardized assessment for elderly people (SAFE) — a feasibility study in district nursing
Author(s) -
ROSS FIONA M.,
BOWER PETER
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of clinical nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.94
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1365-2702
pISSN - 0962-1067
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2702.1995.tb00028.x
Subject(s) - nursing , medicine , psychology
Summary• Current policy requires systematic and comprehensive assessment of elderly people. Few standardized tools exist for assessment. • This paper is in two parts. First it reports on the SAFE assessment measures agreed by a multidisciplinary working party initiated by the Royal College of Physicians and the British Geriatrics Society in 1992. • The second part reports the findings of a feasibility study of SAFE in district nursing practice. The outcomes examined were the proportion of patients with completed assessments, the time taken to carry out the assessments, acceptability to the patient, carer and district nurse, and the training required. • The findings show that SAFE is a practical and acceptable set of instruments in the assessment of elderly people by district nurses, but that further refinement is desirable.