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

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...

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Main Authors: Sunil Agrawal, Jayant Deo, A K Verma, Atul Kotwal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2011-01-01
Series:Indian Journal of Public Health
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Online Access:http://www.ijph.in/article.asp?issn=0019-557X;year=2011;volume=55;issue=1;spage=25;epage=29;aulast=Agrawal