Health and Social Care of Elderly People in the United Kingdom : The Potential for International Comparisons in Health Services Research
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Central to the development of health and social services in the UK has been the aim of enabling older people to live autonomous lives in their own homes. Japan seems until recently to have drawn heavily on the United States for its models of health care for the elderly and has placed an emphasis on unrestricted access of acutely ill older people to the best of modern medical technology as well as on provision of nursing home care for the chronically disabled. However, Japan may be moving in the direction of the British pattern. Japan now enjoys the longest life expectancy of any nation in the world. The United Kingdom has undergone a less dramatic change but has accumulated a half century of experience with meeting the health and social care needs of elderly people. The UK and Japan can now learn from each other. In a broader vision, the ageing of populations is a universal phenomenon affecting developing as well as developed nations. The value of comparing the ways that different peoples who are well advanced in the process have responded to the demographic and economic challenges of ageing populations will benefit more than just the nations directly involved
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