title: Assessing the health needs of elderly people.
abstract: Under the 1990 GP contract, health visitors and district nurses attached to a GP practice on a large housing estate in Glasgow carried out a screening project to assess the health of all elderly people over 75 on the practice list. Sarah Whiteley and Olivia Brittain describe the scheme and the assessment tool they developed to provide specific information to the GPs and to the health board about the health needs of the individuals assessed and the services they required.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Whiteley
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Brittain
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003152:Community Health Nursing; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening; D009737:Nursing Records