Hypertension in geriatric

Utánad, Olvasó! Economic evaluations have traditionally focused on curative care using health-related quality of life as outcomes, and gave answers which interventions to fund or not to fund. However in order to evaluate long-term care as well, broader outcomes are necessary.

The aim of this thesis is to address a number of issues related to outcome measurement in economic evaluations in elderly populations consuming health and social care. After performing a traditional economic evaluation in long-term care and identifying the limitations, a systematic review was performed in order to search for more appropriate outcomes.

It was related to measures of health-related and dementia-specific quality of life, physical, mental and social health, and to wellbeing instruments. It also differentiates between elderly below and above 75 hypertension in geriatric, multimorbidity, dementia severity, living alone or together and elderly with nursing homes with or without physical restraints.

1. Multimorbidity among older people participating in geriatric exercise programme.
2. A magas vérnyomásból felépültek áttekintése
3. Külföldi gyógyszerek magas vérnyomás ellen

In elderly populations using both health and social care, outcome measures do make a difference for the hypertension in geriatric of an intervention, and broader outcomes should be used.

The results of thesis suggests, that policy makers should use wellbeing measures for resource allocation, at least in a population of elderly using both health and social care.