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The mentally frail elderly : should we prescribe community care? : the proceedings of a conference on March 25th 1986 to consider the operation and findings of an action-research project on the home support of dementia suffers in Ipswich and Newham

Author:

Institute of Gerontology (Age Concern) and King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)

Publication date:

1986

Abstract:

Between 1980 and the end of the century it is estimated there will be a 30 per cent increase in people suffering from dementia, but no equivalent budget growth to maintain current per capita levels of service provision. This project explores the limits of community or domiciliary care for dementia-sufferers, ...