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Hospice: Lessons for Geriatricians
Author(s) -
GREER DAVID S.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1983.tb05416.x
Subject(s) - medicine , geriatrics , geriatric care , nursing , hospice care , service (business) , gerontology , reading (process) , medical education , psychiatry , palliative care , economy , political science , law , economics
Hospice is a new system of medical care provision that has undergone remarkable growth and received widespread support in the United States in less than a decade. Its success is apparently related to an accurate reading of social trends and the ability to fill a widely perceived void in the medical profession. Geriatric medicine is developing in the same environment and has not yet established its social or professional role. A review of the hospice experience suggests directions for the development of geriatric medicine that could promote its growth as a socially useful and professionally desirable new approach to medical education and service.
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