title: Health needs of the elderly.
abstract: As the percentage of older persons in the American population increases--as it steadily will over the next several generations--health care and related financing programs must adapt accordingly. Priorities must be refocused away from hospital-based acute treatment and more toward home- and community-based care for chronic illnesses, long-term diseases, and disabilities. Also, prevention and holistic treatment must augment the more traditional illness orientation of contemporary American health care.
authors.affiliation: New Jersey Office of Project Development, Trenton.
authors.forename: J O
authors.initials: JO
authors.lastname: Lebel
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003729:Dental Care / Q000191:economics*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000191:economics*; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000191:economics*; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States