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COMMUNITY CARE OF THE AGED A Preventive Health Perspective
Author(s) -
Devlin G.,
Devlin Glenda
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
australian journal on ageing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.63
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-6612
pISSN - 0726-4240
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-6612.1985.tb01133.x
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , commonwealth , government (linguistics) , aged care , service (business) , public relations , health care , business , nursing , gerontology , medicine , political science , marketing , economic growth , computer science , economics , linguistics , philosophy , artificial intelligence , law
This paper suggests a model for the analysis and planning of aged care services from 3 preventive health perspective. The model considers the aged person's needs, factors affecting how these needs will be met, service provisionl and the consequences to the aged individual and society of this provision. Use of this model to analyse present services points to the need for an ‘Office of the Aged’ at Commonwealth government level to take responsibility for need determination, goal setting, organisation and evaluation of services.