Structured Clinical Tools for Periodic Health Assessment of Older Adults in Primary Care: A Scoping Review
Marie‐Pier Villemure, Benoît Cossette, Pierre‐Vincent Breault‐Ruel, Alexandre Camirand, Catherine Hudon · 2025
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Description
Marie-Pier Villemure and co-authors catalog tools for routine health checks of older adults. Their 2025 scoping review notes that primary care lacks agreement on what to screen, above all for geriatric syndromes. A person's true aging profile can differ from their birth age, so checks should adapt. The team hunted papers and gray sources in French and English.
Sixteen distinct structured tools surfaced from over eight thousand records. Formats ran from questionnaires and checklists to acronyms and memory hooks. All covered geriatric syndromes, yet only two adapted advice to aging profiles. Clinicians asked for tools inside the health record, tuned to each profile, and backed by evidence. None yet fits the bill, the authors conclude.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Marie‐Pier Villemure, Benoît Cossette, Pierre‐Vincent Breault‐Ruel, Alexandre Camirand, Catherine Hudon |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 39 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |