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Intermediate care for older people — the new Cinderella non-specialty?
Author(s)	Finbarr Martin
Journal title	Ageing & Health: the Journal of the Institute of Ageing and Health (West Midlands), no 7, 2001
Pages	pp 9-13
Keywords	Rehabilitation ; Aftercare ; Hospital services ; Social policy.
Annotation	Despite a welcome and unprecedented emphasis on older people in the government's modernisation agenda for the National Health Service (NHS), ageism often comes disguised in new and prettier forms. Intermediate care is fast emerging as the latest and prettiest solution to an over-stretched service. The government's recent consultation document on long term planning for hospitals and related services argues strongly that alternatives must be found to limit hospital bed use, and intermediate care is at the centre of the alternative strategy. Older people are considered as "over-users" of hospitals, and are thus potential candidates for the various alternatives. The promise is that this will lead to more suitable care; but it is important to ensure that older people do not lose out by having reduced access to the range of acute, rehabilitation, supportive and caring facilities needed to deal effectively with illness, disability and dying. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-011024204 A
Classmark	LM: LN: LD: TM2
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