Protecting the health of the elderly: a review of WHO activities
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World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
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viii, 125 p.
During 1982, the year in which the United Nations held its World Assembly on Ageing in Vienna, the European Region of the World Health Organization (WHO) experienced an upsurge of interest in the health care of the elderly. This was due not only to the increasing numbers of elderly people in the Region, but also to their needs and demands for an active old age on the one hand and health and social care on the other, requirements that have not been and are still not being adequately met. This volume is based entirely on reports of WHO meetings related to the care of the elderly held since 1958; the author has introduced no new material nor any of her own ideas. It has been written for those who are interested in developments in health care of the elderly from an interdisciplinary and international point of view, and who may have found it difficult to find their way around the multitude of WHO reports and publications on the subject. For this reason the text has been arranged in seven chapters covering the principal issues with which WHO has been concerned.
During 1982, the year in which the United Nations held its World Assembly on Ageing in Vienna, the European Region of the World Health Organization (WHO) experienced an upsurge of interest in the health care of the elderly. This was due not only to the increasing numbers of elderly people in the Region, but also to their needs and demands for an active old age on the one hand and health and social care on the other, requirements that have not been and are still not being adequately met. This volume is based entirely on reports of WHO meetings related to the care of the elderly held since 1958; the author has introduced no new material nor any of her own ideas. It has been written for those who are interested in developments in health care of the elderly from an interdisciplinary and international point of view, and who may have found it difficult to find their way around the multitude of WHO reports and publications on the subject. For this reason the text has been arranged in seven chapters covering the principal issues with which WHO has been concerned.