Why the Elderly Could bankrupt Canada and how demographic imperatives will force the redesign of acute care service delivery

Healthcare Papers

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 46-51

  Sinha, Samir K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; CANADA; ECONOMICS; ELDERLY CARE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FORECASTING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; NOTE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANADA; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; FORECASTING; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTHY PEOPLE PROGRAMS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 79953719665     PISSN: 1488917X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12927/hcpap.2011.22252     Document Type: Review

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