Asthma mortality and management in older Australians: time for a new approach? (letter)

Title: Asthma mortality and management in older Australians: time for a new approach? (letter)
Creator: McDonald, Vanessa M.; Gibson, Peter G.
Relation: Australasian Journal on Ageing Vol. 27, Issue 4
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-6612.2008.00322.x
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2008
Description: The improvements in asthma mortality since the 1980s represent a successful national effort to implement advances in drug therapy and self-management of asthma. The rise in asthma mortality among older people is alarming since it shows that current management approaches may be ineffective when applied in an older population. To explain the rise in asthma mortality among older people as a diagnostic labelling issue (i.e. mislabelling as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)) misses the point.A problem-based strategy that identifies and treats the clinical and person-centred problems of older people using an interprofessional approach may lead to improved health outcomes and the same decline in mortality seen in younger Australians.
Subject: asthma; mortality; older population; problem-based strategies
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/41440
Identifier: uon:4797
Identifier: ISSN:1440-6381
Language: eng

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