As in other ageing populations, dementia, musculoskeletal conditions and cardiovascular
disease affect a high proportion of Australians aged over 65 years, and the prevalence of …

Background The increase in the incidence of dementia in the aging population and the
decrease in the availability of informal caregivers put pressure on continuing care systems to …

Demographic changes such as increasing longevity, declining family sizes, and increasing
female participation in the labor market have implications for long-term care (LTC) planning …

The US has the largest and the most costly healthcare system in the world. Quality and cost
of healthcare services are affecting peoples' lives, the country's population health, and the …

All too often, complexity issues are ignored in decision making simply because they are just
too difficult to represent. Managers feel that to expand the boundaries of the decision …

The waiting time from referral to actual appointment to see a specialist doctor at the
outpatient clinic is often long, can be many months. It is challenging to manage the number …

The purpose of this research is the examination of validity of data as well as simulation
model, ie to simulate the real data in the SD model with the least error using the adjustments …

This report outlines an Operational Research (OR) model to plan long-term care (LTC)
provision for older people in urban and rural China. Many countries in both the developing …

This research was jointly funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and
the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). As such, its …