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| Who will care for the oldest people? | | Author(s) | Jean-Marie Robine, Jean-Pierre Michel, François R Herrmann |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 334 no 7593, 17 March 2007 |
| Pages | pp 570-571 |
| Source | http://www.bmj.com |
| Keywords | Family care ; Demography ; United States of America ; Switzerland. |
| Annotation | Current demographic change projects a decrease in the number of informal care givers. The authors describe an indicator to monitor potential informal care resources, using as examples American and Swiss data from the Human Mortality Database (www.mortality.org) and demographic forecasts from the International Data Base. They suggest a four age-group population model which will better anticipate future long-term care needs. While this in itself will not solve any shortages of formal or informal care, the statistics suggest that older people may be surviving better and have fewer disabilities. Greater family involvement in long term care is advocated, particularly among husbands and sons. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070327204 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: S8: 7T: 76C * |
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