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| The history of geriatric medicine in Canada | | Author(s) | David B Hogan, Howard Bergman, Peter N McCracken |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 45, no 9, September 1997 |
| Pages | pp 1134-1139 |
| Keywords | Health services ; Geriatricians ; Histories ; Canada. |
| Annotation | The Canadian health care system provides universal, publicly funded coverage for medically necessary hospitalisations and doctors' services. Canada's 10 provincial governments have ultimate responsibility for the regulation and delivery of health care within their jurisdictions. This article outlines health care for older adults in Canada, covering: the organisation of medical practice; geriatric medicine and its recognition as a specialty; family medicine and health care for older people; and geriatric psychiatry. Canadian geriatricians - numbering about 130 - function as consultants to other physicians and do not generally provide primary care, although nearly all work with multi-disciplinary teams. As it is, there is a shortage of specialists in geriatric medicine, given that the profession would like there to be more than 500 by the millennium. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981127212 A |
| Classmark | L: QT4: 6A: 7S |
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