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The health care system can help elderly people to stay healthy or to improve health if a systematic process to patient care can be provided. The first step is to look upon all new medication treatment as an experiment, and therefore continuously follow-up on the patient objectives of the treatment, documenting treatment goals and results, and communicating this with the patient and all involved health care-professionals.
In this book we have provided background for problems and examples of solutions to improve quality of medication care in the elderly. In this chapter we provide visions and objectives for further improvement in care of the elderly. We also summarise some very important practical aspects in the care of the elderly and give references to other chapters in this book.
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Midlöv, P., Eriksson, T., Kragh, A. (2009). Summary and Perspectives. In: Drug-related problems in the elderly. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2446-6_11
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