title: Modern ideas about organization of services for elderly patients in hospitals and nursing homes in the Netherlands.
abstract: The system of nursing homes in the Netherlands, and the advantages of the new department for geriatric assessment in the Municipal Hospital in Amsterdam are discussed. Included are admission and discharge data on 694 patients in the Geriatric Department in 1977, and also a list of the more common diagnoses, classified according to body system and disease.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D003631:Day Care, Medical; D005852:Geriatric Psychiatry; D005853:Geriatrics; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006773:Hospitals, Municipal; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D009017:Morbidity; D009426:Netherlands; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000458:organization & administration*