Geriatric assessment--An Australian idea

J. Munro-Ashman

Social Science & Medicine, 1989, vol. 29, issue 8, 939-942

Abstract: Residential care provision for elderly people varies from country to country as well as from state to state within Australia, yet despite this a universal feature of all countries is community pressure for increased provision of both nursing home and hostel accomodation. Australia has developed the concept of multidisciplinary assessment of elderly people requesting residential care. This paper describes the effectiveness of one assessment team in the south of Tasmania in reducing demand for residential accomodation and in improving outcomes for the clients referred to the team.

Keywords: geriatrics; Tasmania; elderly; provision; residential; care (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
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