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Our concepts of the place of the elderly in the health care system tend to be very much influenced by the arrangements which prevail in our own particular countries. These differences owe less to rational planning than to our respective social, political and economic histories and to the varying degree to which the whims and power of the medical profession have been harnessed to the real needs of the population they should be serving. Provision for the elderly has also further varied according to the way the responsibility has been shared between health, social services and private care. The experience which unites most of us has been the inadequate and delayed priority afforded to the elderly in the face of the eminently foreseeable demographic changes.
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Godber, C. (1986). The Elderly in the Health Care System: Primary and Specialised Medical Care. In: Häfner, H., Moschel, G., Sartorius, N. (eds) Mental Health in the Elderly. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70958-6_26
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