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Excellence in primary care research: which requirements are needed?

in most European countries is the equivalent of primary care), Barbara Starfield’s proposal is still the most plausible and appropriate: she described primary care as firstcontact, continuous, comprehensive, and coordinated care provided to populations undifferentiated by gender, disease, or organ system. These elements are accepted by most professional organisations, agencies and commissions a...

The regional approach to home care for life-supported persons.

Medical Care for Needy Persons in Maryland

I T IS now 10 years since Maryland inaugurated a program of medical care for needy persons, administered through the State and county health departments. One other State, Washington, formerly provided medical care for the needy through its health department but recently transferred responsibility for the program to the welfare department, where it had originally been located. Starting in July 1...

Primary care and care for older persons: position paper of the European Forum for Primary Care.

This article explores how to address the needs of the growing number of older patients in primary care practice. Primary care is not a fixed organisational structure but a combination of functional characteristics which has developed variably in European countries with differing responses to the emerging needs of older persons. Multimorbidity, frailty, disability and dependence play out differ...

Changing the Care Provided Persons with Dementia

This discussion is both cautionary and hopeful, for it addresses the remaining ability of those persons with dementia as well as the effect of such lack of recognition, upon the care delivered to all vulnerable older adults. A series of vignettes are presented that reach across time, each describes the nature of such remaining ability in dementia. The vignettes present a nurses’ “remembered” ex...