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Assessment of older people in the community: lessons from Britain’s ‘75-and-over checks’

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 1999

Steve Iliffe ,
Mari Gould  and
Paul Wallace
Steve Iliffe
Affiliation:
Royal Free and University College London Medical School, London, UK
Mari Gould
Affiliation:
Royal Free and University College London Medical School, London, UK
Paul Wallace
Affiliation:
Royal Free and University College London Medical School, London, UK
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Abstract

Research carried out in the 1950s and early 1960s indicated that there was considerable unmet need amongst older people in Britain. This work prompted research into ways of meeting the health care needs of older people, a task made more important by the aging of the population at the end of this century. This focus resulted in the introduction in 1990 of a nationwide health assessment programme for older people, as a contractual obligation for general practitioners. The programme, the first in the world, remains in force but is widely ignored. This paper describes:

Type
Review Article
Information
Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , November 1999 , pp. 305 - 316
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press 1999

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