Health systems readiness to provide geriatric friendly care services in Uganda: a cross-sectional study

BMC Geriatrics

Table 2 Summary scores for select human resource for health tracer items at 18 HFs

Tracer item	Availability	HC III	HC IV	Hospital	Total
Tracer item	Availability	Freq. (Col %)	Freq. (Col %)	Freq. (Col %)	Total
HF has geriatric care specialist^b	Yes	1 (8.3)	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (5.6)
HF has geriatric care specialist^b	No	11 (91.7)	5 (100)	1 (100)	17 (94.4)
Doctor had geriatric care training	No	0 (0)	5 (100)	1 (100)	6 (100)
Doctor had geriatric care training	NA	12 (0)^a	0 (0)	0 (0)
Clinical officer had geriatric training	Yes	1 (8.3)	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (5.6)
Clinical officer had geriatric training	No	11 (91.7)	5 (100)	1 (100)	17 (94.4)
Nurses had geriatric training	Yes	0 (0)	1 (20)	0 (0)	1 (5.6)
Nurses had geriatric training	No	12 (100)	4 (80)	1 (100)	17 (94.4)
Midwives had geriatric training	No	12 (100)	5 (100)	1 (100)	18 (100)
The pharmacist had geriatric care training	No	1 (100)	5 (100)	1 (100)	7 (100)
The pharmacist had geriatric care training	NA	11 (0)^a	0 (0)	0 (0)
Other health workers had geriatric training	No	12 (100)	5 (100)	1 (100)	18 (100)
The facility has a health worker to help older adults	No	12 (100)	5 (100)	1 (100)	18 (100)
The HF has support staff to help older adults	No	12 (100)	5 (100)	1 (100)	18 (100)
Health workers had geriatric training in the last two years	No	12 (100)	5 (100)	1 (100)	18 (100)
Staff receive CME in geriatric services	Yes	1 (8.3)	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (5.6)
Staff receive CME in geriatric services	No	11 (91.7)	5 (100)	1 (100)	17 (94.4)

^aNA indicates not applicable for that level of HF and is not included in the analysis
^bIndicates someone who had a geriatric-specific training that lasted 1 year or more

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