Table 5 Plan for Implementing the Outcome Evaluation

Reach

The absolute number, proportion, and representativeness of older adults who are willing to participate in C-HSPP and complete the programme

- Number and characteristics of participants and non-participants

- Enrolment routes

- Retention and attrition rates

- Reasons for exclusion or non-participation

- Administrative records

- Participant enrolment logs

Adoption

The absolute number, proportion, and representativeness of settings and intervention agents willing to initiate a programme

- Number and characteristics of participating centres

- Representativeness of settings

- Staff-level Adoption

- Organizational Adoption

- Service providers (management perspective)

- Individual Interviews with SWs

- Meeting minutes

Implementation

The degree to which the intervention is delivered as intended and the satisfaction of participants and providers

- Fidelity measures: adherence to intervention protocol, quality of delivery

- Management of health-social dimensions

- Number of referrals and reasons

- Survey of satisfaction among the participants

- Client documentation and service audiotapes

- Individual group interviews with NCMs and SWs

- Meeting minutes

- Participants Satisfaction surveys

Maintenance

The extent to which C-HSPP is sustained over time and integrated into routine practice

- Long-term sustainability strategies

- Facilitators and barriers to sustaining the intervention

- Potential for scalability to other settings

- Meeting minutes

- Focus group interviews with participants

- Individual group interviews with NCMs and SWs