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Slicing the health service cake
— the Islington study | | Author(s) | Tanya Nelson, Gill Livingston, Martin Knapp |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 31, no 6, November 2002 |
| Pages | pp 445-450 |
| Keywords | Health services ; Services ; Usage [services] ; Cross sectional surveys ; Islington. |
| Annotation | A cross-sectional community study was carried out with a representative sample of 1085 people aged 65+ interviewed at home in Islington, to find out patterns and predictors of their service usage. Having dementia was a negative predictor of general practitioner (GP) and hospital consultation. Depressed participants were most likely to consult with GPs; 13.1% were on antidepressants. Those with dementia use health services less than their counterparts. The presence of co-resident informal caregivers predicts less use of social services, but no increase in health consultations. In this population, carers give compensatory care rather than act as bridges to link people with dementia with the health care system. The study also concludes that people with dementia need advocates; and that older people with depression are high users of all services, but they remain undertreated pharmacologically. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-021216240 A |
| Classmark | L: I: QLD: 3KB: 82LK |
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