title: No bars to better care.
abstract: There are positive-ageing prisoners, as well as pensioners. And mental health services for older prisoners are being actively developed within the prison service. Health care in prisons now has to be equivalent to that in the community. The transfer of health care in prisons to the NHS, due to be completed in April 2006, when all funding and direction will come from primary care trusts, will help older prisoners.
authors.affiliation: Medical journalism, which he continues in his eighties, writing obituaries of nurses in The Independent and articles elsewhere.
authors.forename: Laurence
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dopson