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The social health maintenance organization — selected article from PRIDE Institute's 14th annual conference of October 12, 1995, "Society's abandonment of the frail elderly: true or false?"
Author(s)	Harriet Dronska
Journal title	The Journal of Long Term Home Health Care : the PRIDE Institute Journal, vol 15, no 2, Spring 1996
Pages	pp 41-45
Keywords	Health services ; Finance [care] ; Health insurance ; United States of America.
Annotation	The US Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) set up the Social Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) in the mid-1980s. The author describes her own organisation, Elderplan, a Social HMO which began in 1984 as a demonstration programme. It is funded by health care insurance, and aims to provide health and preventive care services for older people. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-980129210 A
Classmark	L: QC: WPG: 7T
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