Therapy-based allied health delivery in residential aged care, trends, factors, and outcomes: a systematic review

BMC Geriatrics

Table 3 Availability of allied health professions, grouped by profession

AHP^a	Type of engagement^b	Country	Sample size (number of RACFs)	Data collection period	Proportion of sample size providing or having access to AHP service (%)
Physiotherapy	Employed	US	31,134	2010	43.9 [29]
Physiotherapy	Employed	Norway	91	2020	37.4 [34]
Occupational therapy	Employed	Australia	82	2015	43.0 [51]
		US	31,134	2010	40.0 [29]
		Norway	94	2020	53.2 [34]
Speech pathologists	Employed	Norway	78	2020	7.7 [34]
Social work	Employed	US	15,936	2009–2012	89.1^c [49]
		Australia	82	2015	17 [51]
		Norway	77	2020	6.5 [34]
Social work assistants	Employed	US	15,936	2009–2012	57.2^c [49]
Therapy assistant	Employed	Canada	37	2010	84.0 [31]
Nutrition and dietetics	Employed	Norway	79	2020	6.3 [34]
	Access	Germany	541	2014	42.3 [32]
		Ireland	33	2013	82 [38]
		Sweden	1154	2014	75.5 [50]
		Italy	67	2012	88 [30]
Podiatry	Access	Ireland	32	2013	97 [38]
Diversional therapy	Employed	Australia	88	2015	73.9 [51]
Psychology	Employed	Australia	81^d	2015	13.6 [51]

^a AHP = Allied health profession
^b Engagement indicates whether the facility employed the specified allied health profession or whether that had access to the profession through internal and/or external staff
^c longitudinal measure, all other measures were collected a cross-sectionally
^d survey respondents may or may not be from individual RACFs

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