Who Will Care for the Frail Elderly?
โ Scribed by Joseph S. Alpert; Pamela J. Powers
- Book ID
- 116211613
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 303 KB
- Volume
- 120
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1555-7162
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## Abstract The prevalence of diabetes increases with age and with increasing age and fralty many elderly people move into residential care. An audit of diabetes care was carried out in 25 trail diabetic patients in residential care comparing them with 25 diabetic patients living in their own homes
Community care has been the main policy for the care of frail elderly people in Britain in the postwar period. Currently most care is provided by the informal sector, with state domiciliary services playing a residual role. In long-term hospital beds or residentialhursing homes, institutional care i