Health Care of the Aged: Needs, Policies, and Services

Focusing on the need for developing new service delivery models for the aged Health Care of the Aged examines fiscal, political and social criteria influencing this challenge of the 1990s. The aged are caught in the sweeping changes currently occuring in the financing, organizing, and delivery of human and health care services. From various perspectives, this book aims to help shape the direction for elderly health care programme development an dimplementation. With an emphasis on greater long term care in either home, community, or institutional settings, this important book will increase the understanding for a comprehensive, effective policy designed to carry the growing number of elderly through this decade and into the next. As roles and issues change, this book will become increasingly important to those involved in providing services and care to the elderly.