Services for the elderly: counting the cost of old age.
How does expenditure on services affect the quality of life of old people? How effective is that expenditure? It depends on what you mean by effective. One town's answers to such questions are highlighted here by B.M. Epps, chief corporate planner, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council.
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged; D004739:England; D005102:Health Expenditures; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000191:economics*; D006707:Homes for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D011788:Quality of Life