Age Care Technologies® Research
ACT®Research
Age Care Technologies® builds on a heritage of research since 1989 in over 50 countries, resulting in more than 100 peer-reviewed publications.
Heritage Research
Selected publications.
View all publicationsDeveloping a new metric for ADLs.
Finch, M., Kane, R., Philp., I. (1995)
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 43(8): 877-884.
Can a medical and social assessment be combined?
Philp, I. (1997).
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 90(Suppl. 32):11-13.
A better way to measure disability in older people.
Philp, I., et al. (1998)
Age Ageing 27(4): 519-522.
Geriatric assessment in primary care: formulating best practice.
Philp, I., Newton, P., McKee, K. et al. (2001)
British Journal of Community Nursing, 6 (6). pp. 290-295.
Cost-effectiveness of a multidisciplinary intervention model for community-dwelling frail older people.
Melis, R. J., Adang, E., Teerenstra, S., van Eijken, M. I., Wimo, A., van Achterberg, T., van de Lisdonk, E. H., & Rikkert, M. G. (2008).
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, 63(3), 275–282.
A randomized study of a multidisciplinary program to intervene on geriatric syndromes in vulnerable older people who live at home (Dutch EASYcare Study).
Melis, R. J., van Eijken, M. I., Teerenstra, S., van Achterberg, T., Parker, S. G., Borm, G. F., van de Lisdonk, E. H., Wensing, M., & Rikkert, M. G. (2008).
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, 63(3), 283–290.
Cross-cultural adaptation of an instrument measuring older people’s health needs and priorities in Albania and Kosovo.
Jerliu, N, Toci, E, Burazeri, G., Ramadani, N, Philp, I. & Brand, H. (2013).
Albanian Medical Journal, 109-114.
Development of EASY-Care, for brief standardized assessment of the health and care needs of older people; with latest information about cross-national acceptability.
Philip, K. E., Alizad, V., Oates, A., Donkin, D. B., Pitsillides, C., Syddall, S. P., & Philp, I. (2014).
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 15(1), 42–46.
The adaptation of the EASY-Care Standard assessment instrument into Turkish and evaluation of psychometric properties among Turkish older people.
Pınar, R., Ergün, A., Erol, S., Kurtuluş, Z., Gür, Z., Sert, H., Philp, I. (2015)
Nobel Med 2015; 11(2): 85-92.
Portuguese older people’s self-perception of their (in)dependency : a cross sectional study.
Brandão, M., Sousa, L., Philp, I, and Cardoso, M. (2015)
Journal of Aging and Innovation, 4 (1). pp. 3-17.
Predictive validity of a two-step tool to map frailty in primary care.
van Kempen, J. A., Schers, H. J., Philp, I., Olde Rikkert, M. G., & Melis, R. J. (2015).
BMC medicine, 13, 287.
Validity of the EASYCare Standard 2010 assessment instrument for self-assessment of health, independence, and well-being of older people living at home in Poland.
Tobis, S., Jaracz, K., Talarska, D., Kropińska, S., Zasadzka, E., Pawlaczyk, M., Wieczorowska-Tobis, K., Philp, I., & Suwalska, A. (2017)
European journal of ageing, 15(1), 101–108.
Reliability and validity of the EASYCare-2010 Standard to assess elderly people in Portuguese Primary Health Care
Brandão, M. P., Martins, L., Philp, I., & Cardoso, M. F. (2017).
Atencion primaria, 49(10), 576–585.
Calibrating EASY-Care independence scale to improve accuracy.
Jotheeswaran, A. T., Dias, A., Philp, I., Patel, V., & Prince, M. (2016).
Age and ageing, 45(6), 890–893.
Health needs of older Aboriginal people in Taiwan: a community-based assessment using a multidimensional instrument.
Lee, L. L., Lin, S. H., & Philp, I. (2015).
ournal of clinical nursing, 24(17-18), 2514–2521.
Functional assessment of the elderly with the use of EASY-Care Standard 2010 and Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment.
Talarska, D., Pacholska, R., Strugała, M., & Wieczorowska-Tobis, K. (2016).
Scandinavian journal of caring sciences, 30(2), 419–426.
Ongoing research
The ACT-ICOPE International Research Network continues to adapt and validate ACT® Tools for global use and for population insight.
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Rakesh Lingappa
Director
Ada Lovelace Software Private Limited, India
Priyadarshi Patni
Professor
Lachoo Memorial College of Science and Technology, India
Prasun Chatterjee
Additional Professor
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India
Maw Pin Tan
Professor
University of Malaya, Malaysia
Karen Morgan
Academic Lead in Psychology and Behavioural Science
Perdana University, Malaysia
Yu-Ting Chen
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dalhousie University, Canada
Grace Warner
Professor
Dalhousie University, Canada
Tanya Parker
Professor of Occupational Therapy
Dalhousie University, Canada
Susan Kirkland
Professor and Head
Dalhousie University, Canada
Monica Perracini
Professor in Physiotherapy and in Gerontology
Universidade Cidade de São Paulo and Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
Juliana Martins
Professor
University of Brasilia, Brazil
Jeffer Eidi Sasaki
Associate Professor
Federal University of Triangulo Mineiro, Brazil
Caio Margon Gonçalves
Researcher
University of Uberaba, Brazil
Alisa Grigorovich
Assistant Scientist
KITE-Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Australia
Guifang Guo
Professor
Peking University, China
Xiaoting Liu
Professor and Vice Director of the School of Public Affairs
Zhejiang University, China
Dr. Vida Alizad
Visiting Scholar
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Sue Thomson
CEO & Company Secretary
McLean Care, Australia
Minhui Liu
Associate Professor
China
Louise Horstmanshof
Senior Lecturer
South Cross University, Australia
Ee Ming
Professor
University of Malaya, Malaysia
Beth Mozolic-Staunton
Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy
Bond University, Australia
Hidenori Arai
President
National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology (NCGG), Japan
Du Peng
Vice President, Professor
Renmin University of China, China