Piloting the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment service level toolkit in two sites

MethodsCase study selection was partly purposive and partly based on opportunistic sampling. As described in Chapter 8, during the development of the service-level tools, the team engaged with a number of sites that had expressed an interest in making use of the toolkit as part of their own improvement plans. The services ultimately included were drawn from this sampling frame, with a view to putting the toolkit into use in services that varied in potentially important ways, for example clinical focus and professional leadership. 160 It is noteworthy, however, that all three services were actively seeking to improve the quality of their care for older people and were known to the investigators. As such, they arguably represent relatively receptive contexts for efforts to incorporate CGA in services that do not specialise in care of older people, with some willingness and enthusiasm for change.