References

1. Community Care of Older People
Edited by David Beales, Michael Denham and Alistair Tulloch (1998)
Radcliffe Medical Press Ltd
18 Marcham Road, Abingdon, Oxon, OX1 4AA, UK
ISBN 1 85775 032 2

2. Beales D and Hicks E (1998)
Volunteers help to detect unreported problems in the elderly.
The Practitioner 232:478-82

3. Pathy MS, Bayer A, Harding K et al. (1992)
Cardiff - Newport Questionnaire
Randomised trial of case finding and surveillance of elderly people at home.
Lancet 340: 890-3

4. Carpenter GI and Demopoulos GR (1990)
Winchester Disability Questionnaire
Screening the elderly in the community: controlled trial of dependency surveillance using a questionnaire administered by volunteers.
BMJ 300: 1253 - 6

5. Beales D and Hicks E (1993)
Staywell 75+: preventative home visits to people aged 75 and over with trained volunteers from within a group general practice.

Further Reading

1.Beales D (1992)
A new form of community hospital service for the elderly.
BMJ 284: 840-8

2. Accident Prevention Among Older People, approaches in practice, a series of case studies in the home environment. Pages 146-50
Edited by Loraine Ashton
ISBN 0 7521 1255 4

3. Tulloch AJ and Moore V
A randomised controlled trial of Geriatric screening and surveillance in general practice.
Journal of RCGP (1979)