Older people’s perspectives on frailty screening in primary care settings – a citizens’ jury study
Annette Braunack-Mayer, Jackie M Street, Caitlin Reader, Lesley M O’Brien, Elsa Dent, Belinda Fabrianesi, Agnieszka Chudecka, Renuka Visvanathan, Justin Beilby, Michael Lawless, Rachel C Ambagtsheer · 2024
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Older Australians were asked to judge frailty screening as a jury would, in a 2024 study by Annette Braunack-Mayer and co-authors. Frailty, a state of low strength and high vulnerability, is easier to help when caught early, yet older people can be wary of being screened.
Fourteen jurors, picked to mirror community diversity, heard expert testimony in South Australia and debated the evidence together. They weighed when and how screening should happen in everyday doctor visits, its benefits, and its possible harms, including biased or wrong labels. The citizens' jury method let lay people deliver informed verdicts for policy. Their conclusions aim to make screening something done with older people, not to them.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Annette Braunack-Mayer, Jackie M Street, Caitlin Reader, Lesley M O’Brien, Elsa Dent, Belinda Fabrianesi, Agnieszka Chudecka, Renuka Visvanathan, Justin Beilby, Michael Lawless, Rachel C Ambagtsheer |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |