Geriatric health: Need to make it an essential element of primary health care

• Main Authors: Sunil Agrawal (Author), Jayant Deo (Author), A K Verma (Author), Atul Kotwal (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Within the next few decades, we will see an extraordinary increase in the number of older people worldwide. The public health benefit of preventive medicine in old age comes from the compression of the time spent in dependency to a minimum. A community-based, cross-sectional study was conducted to a...