- Title
- Primary health care and older people
- Creator
- Browning, Colette; Davis, Jenny; Thomas, Shane
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/178232
- Identifier
- vital:15376
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6466-6_13
- Identifier
- ISBN:2197-5841
- Abstract
- This chapter examines the role of primary health care in the health of older people. As background to the chapter we discuss how primary health care operates in Australia, the workforce challenges and the recent policy reforms. Next we discuss primary health care use by older Australians and the types of services accessed. A main theme in the chapter is the lack of co-ordination between the health and aged care system in the delivery of primary health care services to older people, and the need for integrated care that addresses issues of multi-morbidity and multi-professional input to the care of older people. Addressing these issues through a skilled workforce, better communication between health professionals and a funding approach that does not disadvantage older multiple users of the primary health care system, will assist in the prevention of entry of older people into the more expensive secondary and tertiary health care and residential aged care systems.
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media New York
- Relation
- Ageing in Australia: Challenges and Opportunities p. 225-237
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2017
- Subject
- Integrated care; Older people; Primary health care; Workforce
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