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The Gerontologist, Vol 33, Issue 4 557-560, Copyright © 1993 by The Gerontological Society of America


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Project Safety Net: a health screening outreach and assessment program

DB Reuben, SH Hirsch, JC Chernoff, Y Cheska, M Drezner, B Engelman, JC Frank, M Schlesinger and CF Siegler
Multicampus Program of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, UCLA School of Medicine.

Although comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) has been conducted in many settings, its use in community-based outreach programs has been limited. We have developed Project Safety Net, a program that identifies low-income urban-dwelling frail elderly persons and provides CGA and appropriate referral. The program uses validated screening instruments and makes extensive use of a custom-designed computer program to provide information to the interdisciplinary team and for research purposes. During an 8 month period, 814 older persons were screened including high proportions who were widowed (51%) and who lived alone (66%). The effectiveness of this program remains to be determined in a randomized clinical trial.


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