The Process of Care in Preventive In‐Home Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment

OBJECTIVES: To describe the process of care of a program of in‐home comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) and to determine: (1) if there are major findings in all domains of CGA (medical, functional, mental health, and social/ environmental), (2) if there is a continued clinical yield when CGA is repeated annually, and (3) factors that affect patient adherence with recommendations from CGA.

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