Geriatric health: Need to make it an essential element of primary health care

• Published in: Indian journal of public health Vol. 55; no. 1; pp. 25 - 29
• Main Authors: Agrawal, Sunil, Deo, Jayant, Verma, AK, Kotwal, Atul
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: India Medknow Publications and Media Pvt. Ltd 2011; Medknow Publications & Media Pvt. Ltd; Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
• Subjects: Age groups; Aged; Aging; Analysis; Anemia; Arthritis; Comorbidity - trends; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Cross-Sectional Studies; Developing countries; Diabetes mellitus; Disease prevention; Education; Elements of primary care; Female; Geriatric health; Geriatrics; Health aspects; Health care; Health promotion; Health Services for the Aged - economics; Health Services for the Aged - standards; Humans; Hypertension; India; International organizations; Interviews as Topic; Laboratories; LDCs; Life Expectancy - trends; Male; Medicine, Preventive; Middle Aged; Morbidity; Mortality; Older people; Population; Preventive care; Preventive health services; Preventive Health Services - economics; Preventive Health Services - standards; Primary care; Primary health care; Primary Health Care - economics; Primary Health Care - standards; Public health; Qualitative research; Quality of Life; Rural areas; Systemic diseases; Time compression; Time dependence; India
• ISSN: 0019-557X; 2229-7693
• DOI: 10.4103/0019-557X.82540

Within the next few decades, we will see an extraordinary increase in the number of older people worldwide. The public health benefit of preventive medicine in old age comes from the compression of the time spent in dependency to a minimum. A community-based, cross-sectional study was conducted to a...