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Medicine must change to serve an ageing society
— eradicate age discrimination and increase resources | | Author(s) | Alison Tonks |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 319, no 7223, 4 December 1999 |
| Pages | pp 1450-1451 |
| Keywords | Health services ; Medical workers ; Ageism ; Grant allocation ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | The issues of age discrimination and resources dominated a conference in London in November 1999 to examine how medicine and its institutions must change to serve a growing older population, while still meeting the needs of young people. The health needs of most older people are much the same as for everyone else, but the oldest old and those with chronic diseases or disability are characterised by complications and the need for intensive rehabilitation. For a health service to serve an ageing population well, it will need more money than is available now. Concluding the conference, Sir John Grimley Evans stated that there should be no further discussion of rationing until National Health Service (NHS) funding is brought in line with other comparable European countries. If expenditure is not increased on the NHS, and if the health professions do not manage to counter ageism, then the NHS may fail to meet the challenge presented by an ageing society. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000121201 A |
| Classmark | L: QT: B:TOB: QCG: TM2 * |
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