Nursing Students' Visits to Older Adults With Multiple Chronic Conditions

"12-week home-visit program conducted by nursing students. Participants will receive weekly 45-minute visits. The visits will aim to promote self-care behaviours and will focus on:~1. Self-care of chronic conditions and medication management~2. Healthy habits: physical activity and healthy eating~3. Access to social support resources~4. Patients' rights and autonomous decision-making~The visits program will follow the WHO recommendations for the implementation of health promotion activities. All topics will be assigned 3 visits. In the first visit, the students will assess the participants' information needs and preferences in relation to the topic addressed and will provide generic information about it. In the second visit, the students will present individually-tailored information and will use individually-adapted strategies to convey such information. In the third visit, the student will explore the impact of the two previous visits and reinforce self-care behaviours."

Standard care offered by the Public Andalusian Health Service in its portfolio of services for older adults with multiple chronic conditions and complex health conditions. As part of these services, older adults with multiple chronic conditions receive generic, written information on healthy eating, adapted physical activity, abandonment of toxic habits, environmental safety and emotional management when they are first diagnosed with a chronic condition. The action plans or protocols established in the care processes aimed at older people with chronic multimnorbidity do not include periodic home visits.