The Chronically Ill: A Study of Services to Patients Requiring Long-Term Care: Roosevelt Hospital, New York City, 1963
Abstract
Background of the Study. This study has as its origin the writer's long-standing concern about the problems, relatively distinctive, confronting the aged person. Associated with this has been a conviction that to approach these problems with any degree of understanding, it is essential to reach beyond generically-based concepts to recognition of the differentials in the characteristics and particular needs of this age group. The focus, here, is primarily on the increasing numbers of elderly chronically ill people and the problems encountered by the medical field and institutions, and the community in planning to meet the needs for long-term medical treatment and care. While it is true that chronic illness can strike at any age, the predominant concern today is focused on the growing unmet need of the age group, sixty-five years and older for adequate medical care facilities and continuity of care. This problem has been a prevalent one for the past half century. A new frontier and a new challenge has been presented to the medical and allied services of the United States in the ever-increasing recognition of the need for intelligent care of the chronic sick and aged.
Subject Area
Health care management|Health education
Recommended Citation
Thomas, Gladys Harris, "The Chronically Ill: A Study of Services to Patients Requiring Long-Term Care: Roosevelt Hospital, New York City, 1963" (1964). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31097089.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31097089
