Columbia University School of Social Work, New York, New York 10027, USA.
Gerontologist. 2011 Aug;51(4):433-40. doi: 10.1093/geront/gnr063. Epub 2011 Jun 23.
This paper is a revision of the Kent Award Lecture given at the Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America held in New Orleans, Louisiana, in November, 2010.
This paper looks at the evolution in geriatric social work assessment and outcomes research and concludes with observations of the changing landscape in health and aging.
Since the 1960s, the policies and the context of health care delivery have changed many times as have geriatric health screening and assessment of patients in need of social health care services. Research on social-behavioral and environmental factors critical in measurement of outcomes of health care has progressed significantly as theories of care and the research technologies that allow us to study these factors have become more sophisticated.
Researchers from multiple disciplines need to study the questions which can build the evidence necessary for empirically supported social policy direction. Opportunities in interdisciplinary geriatric assessment and measurement of outcomes, which are presented to researchers today, are highlighted.
本文是 2010 年 11 月在美国路易斯安那州新奥尔良举行的美国老年学学会年会上所作的肯特奖演讲的修订版。
本文回顾了老年社会工作评估和结果研究的演变，并对健康和老龄化领域不断变化的格局进行了观察。
自 20 世纪 60 年代以来，医疗保健政策和环境发生了多次变化，老年健康筛查和有社会健康护理服务需求的患者评估也发生了变化。随着护理理论和研究技术的发展，对健康护理结果的测量中至关重要的社会行为和环境因素的研究取得了重大进展，这些因素可以进行研究。
来自多个学科的研究人员需要研究能够为实证支持的社会政策方向提供必要证据的问题。本文强调了当今为研究人员提供的跨学科老年评估和结果测量方面的机遇。
