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Issues in Geriatric Medicine
Author(s) -
Flicker L.,
Gray L.
Publication year - 1997
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.1741-6612.1997.tb01068.x
Subject(s) - dementia , service delivery framework , aged care , medicine , gerontology , geriatrics , service (business) , disease , business , nursing , psychiatry , marketing , pathology
In Australia there has been rapid growth in the number of geriatricians and the provision of aged care services. This has been accompanied by increasing sophisrication in the assessment and management of the common syndromes of old age: impaired cognition, incontinence, impaired mobility, impaired homeostasis and iatrogenic disease. Innovative systems of service delivery have been developed in diverse fields including dementia services and orthogeriatrics. Adequate planning and funding strategies are required to ensure that older people continue to have appropriate access to high quality services and that there is provision for education and research in ageing.