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Responses of people of different ages to health problems
Author(s)	N J Vetter, P A Lewis
Journal title	Aging: Clinical and Experimental Research, vol 7, no 5, October 1995
Pages	pp 367-370
Keywords	Symptoms ; Attitude ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Health services ; Cross sectional surveys ; Cardiff.
Annotation	There is relatively little information available about the response of people of different ages, particularly elderly people, to symptoms of ill health. This random sample survey of people aged 15 and over living at home in Cardiff asked how they would deal with an older person's given health problem: call 999, go to casualty, GP home visit, GP appointment, telephone GP, or home remedy. Results indicate that older people may not choose as wide a range of different health care services as younger people. In particular, they tend to concentrate their attention on calling the general practitioner, or in the case of foot problems, the chiropodist, without recourse to other services. They also tend to avoid using the emergency services, even where appropriate, and prefer to refer problems to GPs rather than practice or community-based nurses.
Accession Number	CPA-970327001 A
Classmark	CT: DP: TOB: L: 3KB: 95A
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