title: [Geriatrics: the day hospital as a part of comprehensive medical care of elderly patients--also or especially in threatened rationing].
abstract: The wrong conclusion of elderly people being the reason for increasing costs of public health is corrected by several differentiated statements. Geriatrics as a comprehensive medicine for the elderly can be realized in an exemplary way, even in a day hospital. An attitude of solidarity and a high level of interpersonal communication play the important and decisive part.
authors.affiliation: Zentrum Geriatrie-Rehabilitation, Spital Bern-Ziegler. charles.chappuis@spitalbern.ch
authors.forename: Ch
authors.initials: Ch
authors.lastname: Chappuis
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gerber-Glur
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003191:Comprehensive Health Care / Q000191:economics*; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis / Q000639:trends; D003631:Day Care, Medical / Q000191:economics*; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D015276:Health Care Rationing / Q000191:economics*; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000191:economics*; D011157:Population Dynamics; D013557:Switzerland