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Demography, nursing and community care: a review of the evidence
Author(s) -
Shaw Ian,
Shaw Glenys
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1993.18081212.x
Subject(s) - constitution , government (linguistics) , population , nursing , social policy , sociology , political science , medicine , demography , law , philosophy , linguistics
Demography is a most powerful influence upon social policy making Policy making cannot be divorced from the constitution and the characteristics of the population for which it is intended This paper commences by identifying and reviewing the most potent of those trends, and then examines the implications, first for the capacity of the community to cope with its dependents and then for the supply of nurses, before illustrating the importance of community nursing to government policies on community care