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Health‐Care Screening among the Elderly
Author(s) -
Johansen Grethe
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of caring sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.678
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1471-6712
pISSN - 0283-9318
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-6712.1994.tb00017.x
Subject(s) - norwegian , medicine , dementia , isolation (microbiology) , health care , family medicine , social isolation , intervention (counseling) , socioeconomic status , health screening , referral , nursing , gerontology , psychiatry , environmental health , disease , population , philosophy , linguistics , pathology , microbiology and biotechnology , economics , biology , economic growth
Geriatric screening at health clinics has become a regular feature of the health‐care services offered in some Norwegian municipalities. Normally there is good participation in such screening programmes, but there are always some non‐attenders. There is little published material showing the intervention needs among non‐respondents. In a municipality in the middle parts of Norway, screening was offered to the municipality's elderly inhabitants at the local health clinic. Those who did not attend were offered a domiciliary visit. The findings indicate that there is a category of people among those who do not attend for screening at the health clinic who have less need of a medical examination and socioeconomic support than those who do attend the screening. There is also a category in need of community nursing, technical aids and health care because of senile dementia, depression and unsought social isolation.