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| Looking at the future of geriatric care in developing countries | | Author(s) | Louis Miguel Gutiérrez-Robledo |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, vol 57A, no 3, March 2002 |
| Pages | pp M162-M167 |
| Keywords | Health services ; Long term ; Preventative medicine ; Developing countries. |
| Annotation | In the next 20 years, many less developed countries (LDCs) will have age structures approaching those now found now in more developed countries (MDCs). This is occurring more rapidly in Asian and Latin American LDCs. Since poverty is a major determinant of disability and mortality in older people, the future of ageing populations in LDCs is dependent on the degree of poverty in these countries. With the increase of globalisation, diseases in LDCs are changing from infections to non-communicable diseases such as diabetes. Nevertheless, infections such as tuberculosis still take a major toll of older people. The epidemiological transition in LDCs has created a need for health care transitions, from systems based on care to ones that highlight prevention and long-term care. LDCs have the opportunity to develop systems that differ from those in MDCs, by capitalising on the lack of infrastructure to produce more home-based rather than institution-based long-term care systems. Involvement of older people in the planning of their own futures is of paramount importance; and appropriate planning now will decide their future in LDCs in the next 20 to 40 years. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040406202 A |
| Classmark | L: 4Q: LK2: 7B |
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