Acute care hospitals: prepare for the boomers.
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he boomers are coming," and hospitals are ill prepared to meet their needs, Victor Kane, PhD, warned the audience at the American Society on Aging's March conference. In 1996 the first baby boomers (born between 1946 and 1965) turn 50, the age when many people first begin to experience chronic illnesses. Boomers, tomorrow's elderly market, will live longer (and thus will be sicker) and will demand more information and higher quality care than previous genera tions, predicted Kane, a project director with Age Wave, a consulting firm based in Emeryville, CA.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Health progress
دوره 75 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1994