The elderly, drugs, and cost control.
Geriatric drug therapy is complicated, potentially dangerous, and inadequately understood. While some steps have been taken to make geriatric care cost-efficient, much needs to be done to develop a system, geared to long-term care, that is not based on high-technology and capital-intensive methods and that will be geared to reimbursement for procedure and not necessarily for the most highly specialized provider.
D000368:Aged; D003363:Cost Control / Q000639:trends; D004358:Drug Therapy / Q000191:economics*; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D008484:Medicaid; D006278:Medicare; D012106:Research; D014481:United States