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. 2019 Oct 18;16(10):e1002948.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002948. eCollection 2019 Oct.

Redesigning care for older people to preserve physical and mental capacity: WHO guidelines on community-level interventions in integrated care

Jotheeswaran Amuthavalli Thiyagarajan  1 , Islene Araujo de Carvalho  1 , Juan Pablo Peña-Rosas  2 , Shelly Chadha  3 , Silvio Paolo Mariotti  3 , Tarun Dua  4 , Emiliano Albanese  5 , Olivier Bruyère  6 , Matteo Cesari  7 , Alan Dangour  8 , Amit Dias  9 , Mariella Guerra  10 , Jill Keeffe  11 , Ngaire Kerse  12 , Qurat Ul Ain Khan  13 , Chiung-Ju Liu  14 , Gudlavalleti V S Murthy  8   15 , Serah Nyambura Ndegwa  16 , Jean-Yves Reginster  6 , Luis Miguel F Gutiérrez Robledo  17 , Kelly Tremblay  18 , Jean Woo  19 , Martin Prince  20 , John R Beard  1   21
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Redesigning care for older people to preserve physical and mental capacity: WHO guidelines on community-level interventions in integrated care

Jotheeswaran Amuthavalli Thiyagarajan et al. PLoS Med. .

Abstract

Islene Araujo de Carvalho and coauthors discuss the WHO guidelines on integrated care for older people.

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Conflict of interest statement

I have read the journal's policy and the below authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: AD received competitive research funding from the Food Standards Agency in the UK, Public Health England, and the Wellcome Trust to conduct research on nutrition in older people. MP declared that his institution (King's College London) undertook an Agreement for Performance of Work (APW) with the World Health Organization, which included a small amount of funding for the employment of a research worker to complete systematic reviews on interventions for subsyndromal depression, which informed the development of the ICOPE guidelines. He did not benefit personally. KT receives grant funding from the National Institutes of Health and also serves as a grant reviewer. She serves on the Boards of the American Auditory Society as well as the Hearing Loss Association of America. This person consults and conducts advocacy work as founder of Lend an Ear and previously served as the Chief Audiologist for Otogear, which provided hearing protection to the public.

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