Understanding Long-Term Care
- 30 September 1982
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 307 (14) , 889-890
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198209303071411
Abstract
Anyone who has been involved with long-term care of the frail elderly for more than a very short time can only be heartened by the increasingly enlightened public discourse on this subject. Articles such as Rango's in this issue of the Journal 1 or those by Somers2 and by Ruchlin et al.3 in other recent issues are immeasurably more perceptive and more sophisticated than those one could have expected to encounter just a few years ago. But as these intrepid spelunkers begin to pierce the cave's prevailing gloom, regions of darkness still prevail. Four can be considered here.The first is . . .Keywords
This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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- Long-Term Care for the Elderly and DisabledNew England Journal of Medicine, 1982
- Management and Financing of Long-Term-Care ServicesNew England Journal of Medicine, 1982