Health Care Management Research Paper 2022

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Integrated care to improve the quality of elderly care
Executive summary
The paper explores the evidence-based integrated care for improved elderly care among
people living in the community. The paper analyses three key articles that are important for the
understanding of integrated health care. Firstly, the paper analyses the primary research on the
integrated care service as used to improve care for elderly people. In the primary research data
that are obtained from trials shows the improvement in the quality of health upon application to
integrating care as compared to controlled groups within the trials. Secondly, the paper gives the
key policy article that highlighted the importance of integrated health care within the UK and its
application for improving care for elderly people. The article gives various proposed and
implemented care approaches that improve the quality of care such as Care Homes,
Multispecialty Community Providers (MCPs), and Integrated Primary and Acute Care Systems.
Thirdly, the paper analyses an article that shows some successful application of an integrated
health information system. The article that is analyzed based on the integrated health information
system of Croatia that has proved useful in caring for patients and elderly people in the country.
The paper, therefore, concludes by identifying the importance of integrated health care among
the elderly people as this help in the improvement of quality of life and care.
Table of Contents

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1. Introduction............................................................................................................................3
2. Analysis....................................................................................................................................3
2.1 Integrated care for older adult improves perceived quality care............................................4
2.2 Present and future configuration of health and social care service to enhance robustness in
older age.......................................................................................................................................5
2.3 The role of medical informatics in integrated care for elderly people...................................8
Conclusion......................................................................................................................................9
References.....................................................................................................................................10

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1. Introduction
UK population is aging with data captured in 2010 showing three million people aged
over 80. This number is estimated to most likely to double by 2020 hence there is need to
improve on health care for elderly people. Quality of life is also increasingly reducing with
several people suffering from chronic diseases such as debates and dementia. The data taken in
2008 shows that 1.9 million people living with three or more chronic diseases. This has risen to
2.8 by 2018 and is most likely to increase with time. Elderly people mostly over 75 years of age
occupy most beds within health facilities at 60%. Moreover, over 70% of the budget is channeled
towards health care services especially on chronic health conditions (Institute of Fiscal
Studies2017). This, therefore, necessitate the need for integration of various health care services
to improve the quality of care for these increasing number of elderly people. There are three
aspects of integrated care serves to improve the quality of health services provision among
elderly people. These include research, health informatics, and health care policies. The
following paper analyses integrated care for the elderly people with a key focus on the research
article, medical informatics article and policy documents that are currently available (NHS
England 2016).
2. Analysis
Effectiveness of the care for elderly patients living within the community has been a
matter of concern as the population of older people continues to increase in the United Kingdom.
This is due to increasing elderly people within the country that is a worrying trend pushing the
government to spend more funds in caring for patients and elderly people. The government of
England, for instance, pooled £3.8 billion pooled fund for integrated health and social care