Geriatric medicine.
Old age never harmed anyone - but the problems that may arise in the elderly of multiple illnesses, social isolation and poverty conspire to present clinicians and managers with a challenge: an increasing challenge, as the number of people over the age of 85 by the year 2000 will be in the order of a million.
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D000368:Aged; D003191:Comprehensive Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D005853:Geriatrics / Q000639:trends*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000639:trends*; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D011158:Population Growth; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration; D006113:United Kingdom