Hospital Elder Life Program: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Effectiveness

“…The HELP, now implemented successfully around the world, has been shown to improve the quality of care and health outcomes for hospitalised older adults. Positive outcomes include: maintaining cognitive and physical functioning of high‐risk patients during hospitalisation, maximising independence at discharge, assisting with the transition from hospital to home and preventing unplanned hospital readmissions (Hshieh, Yang, Gartaganis, Yue, & Inouye, ; Steunenberg, van der Mast, Strijbos, Inouye, & Schuurmans, ).…”