Key result
Nurse-led self-help groups offer a viable alternative to traditional cardiac rehab for elderly post-coronary patients.
Why the study?
Elderly people have higher rates of coronary disease and the growing elderly population impacts care needs, prompting exploration of self-help groups as a complement to traditional rehabilitation.
Nurse guidebook support in elderly post-coronary self-help groups may complement rehab; leaves open efficacy versus standard care in prospective trials.
Summary Elderly people arc more often subject to coronary diseases than young people, and the rapid growth of the number of elderly people in society has implications for care. An interesting alternative or complement to traditional rehabilitative care is self‐help groups where ‘natural’ care can bring a new perspective to practice. The aim of this paper is to describe a nurse intervention in connection with self‐help groups for elderly persons post‐coronary. This intervention embraces health advice for the group members in the form of a guidebook, comprising physical, psychological and social health aspects to be used in group meetings. From a public health perspective such an intervention is one way to show how nurses can work in rehabilitative care, as well as in promotive and preventive care, outside the health care and medical services.
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Hildingh et al. (1992) studied Coronary diseases. Nurse intervention in connection with self-help groups using a guidebook was evaluated. A nurse intervention using a guidebook in self-help groups offers an alternative or complement to traditional rehabilitative care for elderly post-coronary patients.
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