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| Health care for older persons: a country profile - Korea | | Author(s) | Kyung-Hwan Cho, Younho Chung, Yong-Kyun Roh |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 52, no 7, July 2004 |
| Pages | pp 1199-1204 |
| Source | http://www.americangeriatrics.org http://www.blackwellpublishing.com |
| Keywords | Health services ; Korea. |
| Annotation | The Korean healthcare system is faced with a crisis caused by rapidly changing social values tending toward westernisation, increasing insurance benefit requests for older people's health care, financial instability of the National Health Insurance (NHI) programme, and a lack of social infrastructure for older people. Older people's demand for healthcare has increased markedly, because of a rapidly ageing population, growing female participation in the labour market, elevated expectations for health care, and a change in the pattern of medical conditions in older people from acute illness to chronic disability. NHI lacks the finances to meet long-term care (LTC) needs: only 0.3% of older people can be accommodated in LTC beds, and this leads to undue pressures on acute care beds in general hospitals. This paper advocates the necessity for international discussion of the prospects of developing health care for ageing populations, and encourages the sharing of differing national experiences concerning older people's care. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040913229 A |
| Classmark | L: 7DK |
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