Cognitive impairment in elderly people: population based estimate of the future in England, Scotland, and Wales: Fig 1
Year: 1997
Type: article
Abstract: Financing long term institutional care for elderly people is a contentious political issue.Cognitive impairment is the main reason for such care, 1 and to inform the policy debate we constructed a population based set of estimates of the future number of elderly people and the characteristics of cognitive impairment among them on the basis of a national survey of disability in adults by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys. 2 We report future trends based on stable age specific rates of cognitive impairment and disability.
Source: BMJ
Authors: David Melzer, Margaret Ely, Carol Brayne
Institution: University of Cambridge
Language: English
Subfield: Psychiatry and Mental health
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1985381657