Elderly people's use of services: a survey.
This article describes some of the findings of a longitudinal survey of three samples of older people living at home in East London and Mid Essex. It describes the service use and need for community services of the three samples at their baseline interviews, and then looks at how their patterns of use and need changed by the time of their follow-up interviews. It shows that older people are generally using services appropriately, but that there are still unmet needs. Service use was found to increase with age as health and functional ability declined. Further findings will be published shortly.
Farquhar
M
M
Bowling
A
A
Grundy
E
E
Formby
J
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D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003152:Community Health Nursing; D004739:England; D005851:Geriatric Nursing; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006704:Homemaker Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies