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| Aspects of aged care and rehabilitation in Australia | | Author(s) | Frederick Ehrlich |
| Journal title | BOLD, vol 13, no 2, February 2003 |
| Publisher | International Institute on Ageing (United Nations - Malta), February 2003 |
| Pages | pp 18-22 |
| Keywords | Attitudes to the old of general public ; Management [care] ; Rehabilitation ; Social policy ; Australia. |
| Annotation | Australians are likely to boast that their care of older people is second to none. While this may be debatable, a number of features - not necessarily unique - deserve some discussion. The items selected include: abolition of compulsory age-related retirement (coupled with problems of ageism and age discrimination); the development of Aged Care Assessment Teams (ACATs); hospital rehabilitation departments' discharge practices; culturally and linguistically appropriate aged care services; car driving with dementia; advance care directives (living wills); and more appropriate use of vertebroplasty in the management of osteoporotic fractures. To deliver many of these services, the relationships between doctors trained in rehabilitation medicine with those trained in geriatric medicine have had to be fine-tuned. This has valuable lessons for those responsible for service delivery programmes. The rationale for presenting what many might regard as parochial material, is that by identifying the similarities and differences with one's own practices, new perspectives and insights might emerge. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030513204 A |
| Classmark | TOB: QA: LM: TM2: 7YA |
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