Principles to guide geriatric care services in Africa. A new era?
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https://doi.org/10.21504/sajg.v7i2.150Abstract
The emergence of geriatric services in Africa is inevitable. The new millenium offers an opportunity for health-care professionals, planners and politicians to collaborate in the development and provision of health-care services to older Africans. This piece discusses the options and principles which could he employed in such a collaboration. A case is made out for an evolution of African geriatric medicine away from western (structural) models towards an indigenous specialty model based on systems and processes.References
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Blaxter, M. 1983. The cause of disease: women talking. Social Science and Medicine, 17: 56-69.
Estes, C. & Binney, E.A. 1988. Toward a transformation of health and ageing policy. International Journal of Health Services. 18(1): 69-82.
HelpAge Zimbabwe. 1991. Annual Report. Harare.
Mupedziswa, R. 1998. Community living for destitute older Zimbabweans: institutional care with a human face. Southern African Journal of Gerontology. 7(1): 26-32.
Victor, C.R. 1991. Health and health care in later life. Milton Keynes, UK: Open University Press.
Wilson, A.O. 1995. Integrated community care: the Marlow experience. Paper read at the International Conference on Dynamic Ageing. Cape Town, October 4-6.
Wilson, A.O. & Nhiwatiwa, R. 1992. Does Zimbabwe need geriatric services? Central African Journal Medicine, 38(1): 14-17.
Wilson, A.O. & Parsons, R. 1991. The forgotten: the Zimbabwean elderly in hospital. Central African Journal Medicine, 37(4): 110-14,
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