Health of the Aged

Archive Report

Obstacles to Good Medical Care for Aged

The steady increase in the proportion of older persons in the population of the United States has raised concern over present obstacles to adequate medical care for millions of American men and women in their declining years. The medical needs of the aged far exceed those of persons in the lower age brackets, and fewer of them have the private means to command the required professional attention.

After age 65, health services of various sorts may rank with food, clothing, and shelter as essentials of life. For the process of growing old, in the words of a leading world authority, can be considered “a disease consisting of deficiencies and illnesses—a chronic and fatally progressive disease.”1 Gerontologists and others have ...

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