Psychosocial Concerns In the Medical Encounter: A Comparison of the Interactions of Doctors with Their Old and Young Patients
- 1 April 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Gerontologist
- Vol. 27 (2) , 164-168
- https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/27.2.164
Abstract
Using a newly developed coding method, the Geriatric Interaction Analysis (GIA) system, the interactions of doctors with a matched sample of older and younger patients were audiotaped and scored. Patients and doctors raised fewer psychosocial issues in interviews with older patients than with younger patients. Doctors also responded less well to these issues when elderly patients raised them.Keywords
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