Challenges and opportunities of health care for the aging community in Lithuania

Gerontology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 40-44

  Lesauskaite, Vita ^a   Macijauskiene, Jurate ^a   Rader, Erin ^b  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

^b METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Demography; Medicosocial care

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; DEMOGRAPHY; ELDERLY CARE; GERIATRIC CARE; GERIATRICS; GERONTOLOGY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LITHUANIA; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL CARE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; LITHUANIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 31544464085     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000089824     Document Type: Article

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