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| Institutional care in the community: from chaos to integration of health and social care? | | Author(s) | Clive E Bowman |
| Journal title | Reviews in Clinical Gerontology, vol 7, no 3, 1997 |
| Pages | pp 189-191 |
| Keywords | Services ; Long term ; Nursing homes ; National Health Service ; Community care. |
| Annotation | This article considers some of the implications of the divide between the health and social aspects of institutional care for older people. It argues that the requirement to establish eligibility criteria for National Health Service (NHS) continuing care at local level undermines the concept of a national health service, and does not help to clarify health and social roles that may encourage strategic planning. Further, geriatric medicine has largely become divorced from frail older people in institutional care, since medical care in nursing homes is usually provided by general practitioners (GPs).The author argues that the structure and processes of long-term care should be multidisciplinary, with mutual responsibility and accountability between medical and nursing professions. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971204411 A |
| Classmark | I: 4Q: LHB: L4: PA |
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