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ACT products have been validated in over 100 peer-reviewed publications. View our validation studies below.
Validation Studies
Keyvanloo, S. S. et al. (2022) Predicting The Risk of Fall in Community-Dwelling Older Adults in Iran. Journal of Aging and Environment.
Aman, Z. et al. (2020) The impact of caregiving on caregivers of older persons and its associated factors: a cross-sectional study. Singapore Medical Journal, 61(5), pp. 238-245.
Brandão, M. P. et al. (2017) Reliability and validity of the EASYCare-2010 Standard to assess elderly people in Portuguese Primary Health Care. Atenção Primária, 49(10), pp. 576-585.
Moorey H.C. et al. (2017) Assessment of Older People in Primary Care. In: Pachana N.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Geropsychology. Springer, Singapore.
Talarska, D. et al. (2017) Is independence of older adults safe considering the risk of falls? BMC geriatrics, 17(1), pp. 1-7.
Tobis, S. (2017) 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. European Journal of Ageing, 15(1), pp.101-108.
Brandão MP, et al. (2016) Reliability and Validity of the EASYCare-2010 Standard to Assess Elderly People in Portuguese Primary Health Care. US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health Pub.Med.gov.
Geessink, N. H. et al. (2016) Criterion Validity of a Frailty Index Derived from the Easycare Instrument. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 65(1), pp.222-224.
Jotheeswaran, A. T. (2016) Calibrating EASY-Care independence scale to improve accuracy. Age and ageing, 45(6), pp. 890-893.
Kaehr, E. (2016) Utility of the Easy-Care Standard 2010 in the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment of Adults Aging with Developmental Disabilities.
Oviasu, O. and Macleod, A. (2016) EASYCare: Bridlington Project evaluation report. Supportive care, Early diagnosis and Advanced Disease (SEDA) research group.
Craig, C.,et al. (2015) Systematic review of EASY-care needs assessment for community-dwelling older people. Age Ageing, 44(4), pp.559-565.
Janneke, A.L. (2015) Predictive Validity of a Two-step Tool to Map Frailty in Primary Care. BMC Medicine 13(1), pp. 1-9.
Pınar, R. et al. (2015) The adaptation of the Easy-CARE standard assessment instrument into Turkish and evaluation of psychometric properties among Turkish older people. Nobel Medicus, 11(2): 85-92.
Sharifi, F. (2015) Predicting risk of the fall among aged adult residents of a nursing home. Archives of gerontology and geriatrics, 61(2), pp. 124-130.
Talarska, D., et al. (2015) Functional assessment of the elderly with the use of EASY-Care Standard 2010 and Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment. Scandinavian Journal of Caring Science, 30(2), pp. 419-426.
Marques, A. et al. (2014) Linking the EASY-Care Standard to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health. Disability and Rehabilitation, 36(7), pp. 593-599.
Philp, I. (2014) Perfect Ageing: The contribution of assessment in Improving Later Life. Age UK: London.
Jerliu, N. et al. (2013) Cross-cultural adaptation of an instrument measuring older people’s health needs and priorities in Albania and Kosovo. Albanian Medical Journal, 109-114.
Philip, K. E.,et al. (2013) Development of EASY-Care, for Brief Standardised Assessment of the Health and Care Needs of Older People; With Latest Information About Cross-National Acceptability. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 15(1), pp. 42-46.
Philp, I., (2013) How to empower the primary care physician in the identification of the vulnerable older person with a view to preventing frailty and all its consequences. The Journal of Frailty & Aging, 2(3), p. 128.
Olde-Rikkert, M. G. et al. (2013) Development and evidence base of a new efficient assessment instrument for international use by nurses in community setting with older people. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 50(9), pp. 1180-1183.
van Kempen, J. A. et al. (2013) Development of an instrument for the identification of frail older people as a target population for integrated care. British Journal of General Practice, 63(608): e225-e231.
Philp, I. (2012) No time to lose: bother your doctor in Improving Later Life. Age UK: London.
Philp, I. et al. (2012) EASY-Care Self-Assessment UK National Demonstration Project. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 60.
Anke, P. et al. (2010) EASYcare: recognizing needs in health and social care in vulnerable older people at home. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 19, p. 143.
[Anonymous] (2010) EASYcare: a standardized assessment for individual needs in health and social care. Journal of Clinical Nursing 19, p. 143.
Perry, M. et al. (2010) An EASYcare-based Dementia Training Programme contributes to overcoming barriers to diagnosing dementia. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 19, p. 144.
Persoon, A., et al. (2010) EASYcare: recognising needs in health and social care in vulnerable older people at home.Journal of Clinical Nursing, 19.
Theunisse, L., et al. (2010) Competence-based training on the job: preconditional for comprehensive EASYcare assessments. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 19, p.143.
van Kempen, J. (2010) A validation study of a two-step screening method for the identification of frail older people. Journal of Clinical Nursing (Vol. 19, pp.143-144). Commerce Place, 350 Main St., Malden 02148, MA USA: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, INC.
Bach, S. (2009) Evaluation of the training programme for the use of the EASY-Care assessment method as part of the Standardcare project. Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging, 13(Supplement 1).
Barbagallo, M. et al. (2009) CGA with EASY-Care: Priorities for Research and Development, 19th International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics World Congress (Vol. 13, No. Suppl 1, pp. S27-S28). Springer.
Clarkson, P., et al. (2009) Reliability of needs assessments in the community care of older people: impact of the single assessment process in England. Journal of Public Health, 31(4), pp. 521-529.
Meyer, J. (2009) Comparison of two tools developed to assess the needs of older people with complex care needs. Journal of Research in Nursing, 14(5), pp.437-438.
Philp, I. et al. (2009) Targeted Geriatric assessment in Primary Care – an International Research Collaboration. The Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging. 19th IAGG World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Paris, 5-9 July 2009: abstract book. ISSN 1279-7707 Vol 13, suppl. 1, pS27
Van Eijken, M. et al. (2008) Feasibility of a new community-based geriatric intervention programme. Disability and Rehabilitation, 30(9), pp. 696-708.
Parker, C. et al. (2007) Cognitive screening for people from minority ethnic backgrounds. Nursing older people, 18(12), pp.31-37.
Philp, I. et al. (2007) Screening tools for older people at risk of adverse outcomes. Geriatric Medicine, 37(8), pp.10-13.
Haywood, K. L. et al. (2005) Older people specific health status and quality of life: a structured review of self-assessed instruments. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 11(4), pp. 315-327.
Parker, C. and Philp, I. (2004) Screening for cognitive impairment among older people in black and minority ethnic groups. Age and Ageing, 33(5), pp. 447-452.
Sousa, L. et al. (2003) Qualidade de vida e bem-estar dos idosos: um estudo exploratório na população portuguesa. Revista de Saúde Publica, 37(3), pp. 364-371.
Philp, I., et al. (2002) Repeatability of standardised tests of functional impairment and well-being in older people in a rehabilitation setting. Disability and Rehabilitation, 24(5), pp. 243-249.
Sousa, L., and Figueiredo, D. (2002) Dependence and independence among old persons – realities and myths. Reviews in Clinical Gerontology, 12, pp. 269-273.
Sousa, L. et al. (2002) EASYcare: um sistema de avaliação de idosos (qualidades psicométricas). Revista de Estatística, 26, pp. 87-102.
Figueiredo, D. and Sousa, L. (2001) EASYcare – um instrumento de avaliação da qualidade de vida e bem estar do idoso. Geriatria, 130, pp. 41-47.
Lowles, R. V. and Philp, I. (2001) Simple measures for assessing the physical, mental and social functioning of older people. Generations Review, 11(2), pp. 12-13.
Philp, I. (ed) (2001) Family Care of Older People in Europe. IOS Press: Amsterdam.
Philp, I. et al. (2001) Geriatric assessment in primary care: formulating best practice. British Journal of Community Nursing, 6(6), pp. 290-295.
Pomeroy, I. R. et al. (2001) The effectiveness of very short scales for depression screening in elderly medical patients. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 16(3), pp.321-326.
Sousa, L. (2001) EASY Care – um sistema de informação para avaliação de idosos. Geriatria, 137, pp. 32-42.
Richardson, J. (2001) The Easy-Care assessment system and its appropriateness for older people. Nursing Older People, 13(7), pp. 17-19.
Philp, I. (2000) EASY-Care: A systematic approach to the assessment of older people. Geriatric Medicine-London Then Sevenoaks, 30(5), pp. 15-19.
Dohner, H., et al. (1999) Supporting clinical outcomes in primary care for the elderly in Europe – SCOPE. Zeitschrift Fur Gerontologie Und Geriatrie, 32(2), p. 278.
McCormick, W. et al. (1999) Assessment made EASY. Nursing Standard, 13(22), pp. 24-25.
McKee, K. J. et al. (1999) SheffSCOPE: Using change management to introduce and evaluate health outcome measures in primary care for older people. Zeitschrift Fur Gerontologie Und Geriatrie, 32(2), p.34.
Wojszel, Z. B., et al. (1999) The assessment of the functional state of elderly people by family physician with the help of EASY-Care questionnaire, Polski Merkuriusz Lekarski: Organ Polskiego Towarzystwa, 6(33), pp. 167-170.
Kane, R. L. et al. (1998) Differences in valuation of functional status components among consumers and professionals in Europe and the United States. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 51(8).
Philp, I., et al. (1998) A better way to measure disability in older people. Age Ageing, 27(4), pp. 519-522.
Philp, I., et al. (1998) Screening tools for older people at risk of adverse outcomes. Geriatric Medicine, 37(8), pp. 10-13 (17 ref).
Kane, R. L. et al. (1997) Consumer and professional ratings of the importance of functional status components. Health Care Financial Review, 19(2), pp.11-22.
Philp, I. (1997) Can a medical and social assessment be combined? Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 90(32_suppl), pp. 11-13.
Philp, I. (1997) Geriatric medicine: isn’t there a better alternative? Singapore Medical Journal, 38(10), pp.424-426.
Finch, M., R. L. Kane, et al. (1995) Developing a new metric for ADLs. Journal of American Geriatrics Society, 43(8), pp. 877-884.
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