title: [Transformation of health care, the aged patient and the aging society].
abstract: Ageing of the population is associated with historically new social conflicts which have an immediate impact on the health services. The advances of the health care reform depend also on the fact whether the social and health policy will be able to foresee these conflicts and tackle them in advance. The most serious conflict is the increasing number of old people who require health and/or social care with recent medical advances as regards old age, and are confronted with final and restricted nation-wide and health resources resp. The author discusses possible solutions which in addition to a technical, organizational and economic aspect have a significant, although frequently omitted, moral, ethical and philosophical dimension.
authors: Kabinet gerontologie a geriatrie IPVZ, Praha.
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authors: Topinková
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D018153:Czech Republic; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006299:Health Services for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D011157:Population Dynamics
vernacular_title: Transformace zdravotnictví, starý pacient a stárnoucí spolecnost.