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Medicalising the care of old people | Author(s) | Steve Scrutton |
Journal title | Social Work Today, vol 19, no 42, 23 June 1988 |
Pages | pp 14-15 |
Keywords | Older people ; Health [elderly] ; Attitudes to the old of general public. |
Annotation | Claims that reliance on medical solutions to health problems in older age are implicitly ageist and that an approach which incorporated social, cultural and economic factors would counter many of the negative attitudes towards elderly health. |
Accession Number | CPA-901016042 A |
Classmark | B: CC: TOB * |
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