What is the case for care home medicine? The geriatrician's perspective.

نویسنده

  • A L Gordon
چکیده

This paper makes the case for a specific set of competencies required to adequately care for care home residents. It proposes that staff with these competencies need to work in an appropriate service context in order to achieve the best outcomes. These competencies and contextual factors are not currently recognised or championed by any single constituency within the existing healthcare infrastructure and there is a case that service delivery would be well served by recognition that 'care home medicine' is a distinct entity.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

دوره 45 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015