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Community institutional care for frail elderly people
— time to structure professional responsibility | | Author(s) | David Black, Clive Bowman |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 315, no 7106, 23 August 1997 |
| Pages | pp 441-442 |
| Keywords | Residents [care homes] ; Care homes ; Nursing homes ; Health services ; Management [care]. |
| Annotation | Responsibility for the medical management of older people in community institutional care (residential or nursing) remains poorly defined, with general practitioners bearing the main burden. Poorly defined areas of responsibility mean that patients falling between primary and secondary health care and social services may easily be forgotten. The authors outline five options: visiting medical officers appointed to provide medical management of nursing homes; geriatric medical and psychiatric outreach services; shared medical care; integrated medical care; and setting up health maintenance organisations. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970909003 A |
| Classmark | KX: KW: LHB: L: QA * |
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