Editorial: Who cares for the elderly?
March 26th, 2008Editors at the Lancet react to the news that the aging U.S. population faces a critical shortage of geriatricians. (Registration required.)
Some of the blame for poor progress in services and, in the USA, for recruitment, must lie with geriatricians for not taking a strong role in leadership and giving an audible voice to their specialty … Too often, the specialty, like its patients, is disrespected and marginalized.
… That modern healthcare now faces the challenge of rapidly ageing populations is a celebration of the great strides made by public health and preventive medicine. Generations of practitioners and researchers have brought medicine to this pinnacle. But to enable continued progress, all health disciplines share a responsibility to cooperate with geriatricians to bring competent, compassionate care to old age.
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