Table 1.

Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria

Criteria	Included	Excluded
Population	Adults 65 years old or greater
Interventions	Home care	Acute hospital stay Respite or short term stay (<3 months)
Comparison	Alternative long-term LOCs	Acute hospital stay Respite or short term stay (<3 months)
Outcomes	Elders' health and wellbeing outcomes, including but not limited to: physical and physiological health, morbidity, mortality, functional status and dependence, activities, quality of life, and falls.
Design	Systematic reviews, with or without meta-analyses, of studies that reviewed randomised controlled trials, controlled clinical trials, controlled before and after studies, descriptive studies, cohort studies, retrospective studies, and cross-sectional studies.	Non-systematic review studies Conference abstracts Individual studies