Reeves, David, Pye, Stephen, Ashcroft, Darren M, Clegg, Andrew, Kontopantelis, Evangelos, Blakeman, Tom and van Marwijk, Harm (2018) The challenge of ageing populations and patient frailty: can primary care adapt? BMJ, 362. pp. 1-7. ISSN 0959-8138

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Abstract

Health care systems worldwide are having to adapt to ageing populations and increasing numbers of older people with frailty with complex health and social needs, and in the UK primary care is at the frontline of policy attempts to meet this challenge, but achieving the goal of making frailty an integral part of primary care practice is not without considerable challenges

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	Brighton and Sussex Medical School > Primary Care and Public Health
Related URLs:	https://www.bmj.com/content/362/bmj.k334...
Depositing User:	Rosie Harvey
Date Deposited:	25 Sep 2018 13:39
Last Modified:	25 Sep 2018 13:40
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/78985

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