Hildon, Zoe J.-L.
Tan, Chuen Seng
Shiraz, Farah
Ng, Wai Chong
Deng, Xiaodong
Koh, Gerald Choon Huat
Tan, Kelvin Bryan
Philp, Ian
Wiggins, Dick
Aw, Su
Wu, Treena
Vrijhoef, Hubertus J. M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
This work was funded by: Tote board Singapore, Ministry of Health; and working in partnership with Agency for Integrated Care (AIC).
Article History
Received: 4 July 2017
Accepted: 31 January 2018
First Online: 17 February 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: These analyses are derived from a secondary data source. Data were originally collected as a public health practice initiative by a survey company experienced in surveying older people, and trained in Inter-RAI (decision-making observed test for cognitive impairment). The data collectors followed a standard operating procedure, involving first gaining agreement by verbal consent from the care giver to invite the more notably vulnerable to take part in the survey, including testing for cognitive impairment. All participants themselves were also explained the purpose of the data collection and asked for their own signed consent.An exemption certificate was sought and approved by National University Singapore’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) to use the community survey included herein as a secondary data source. Permissions from the custodians of the data, our partners at the Tsao Foundation, a non-profit family foundation that supports successful ageing, were granted. An amendment was granted to analyse an expanded de-identified dataset linked by Ministry of Health, containing admissions data.
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