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| The health status of elderly people and the new direction of health services | | Author(s) | Wataru Koyano, Hiroshi Shibata |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging & Social Policy, vol 8, nos 2/3, 1996 |
| Pages | pp 13-24 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Health services ; Preventative medicine ; Physical disabilities ; Good Health ; Japan. |
| Annotation | Health provision for older people in Japan has hitherto assumed a large disabled population. However gerontological studies indicate a low and decreasing prevalence of disability in the old in Japan. Relative to services for the elderly disabled, preventive services for healthy older people have been overlooked. In 1994, the Metropolitan Tokyo Government organised a task force to develop a new health education programme as the preventive health service for the healthy urban elderly. A preliminary plan outlining the health education programme - consisting of a booklet, on-the-job training of practitioners, and development of new curricula and teaching materials - was proposed by the authors for discussion within the task force. This appears to meet the needs for preventive health services in the near future. |
| Accession Number | CPA-960306501 A |
| Classmark | CC: L: LK2: BN: CD: 7DT |
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