Volume 20 (2023), Edition 2

The aim of this overview article is to provide an evaluation of age-specific Innovation Fund projects. Of the total 557 funded projects, 17.1 % have an age-specific focus. An additional psychotherapy focus is present in 2.1 % of the age-specific...

DemStepCare focused on a needs-based, person-centred and guideline-oriented optimization of outpatient care for people with dementia and their caregivers. After patient selection and enrollment by their general practitioners, case managers conducted...

For older patients, the first period after hospital discharge is often a critical phase in which health crises and care problems occur more frequently. Patients with complex needs are at high risk of experiencing re-hospitalization during this time....

The need for care in the face of increasing multimorbidity is regularly multidimensional and cannot be adequately dealt with by a single professional group in the health care system. At the same time, the progressive shortage of family doctors meets...

The following case reports describe the interventional modules of the interdisciplinary research project DAVOS (Depression in the nursing home: a cluster-randomized stepped-wedge study). The idea behind DAVOS was to implement an innovative and...

Home living older adults with depression who are in need of care do, as of now, not receive adequate psychotherapeutic care within the German health-care sector, while there is also a lack of corresponding research. Psychotherapists working in...