Tomek-Roksandić S, Vorko-Jović A
Zavod za javno zdravstvo grada Zagreba.
Lijec Vjesn. 1994 Sep-Oct;116(9-10):245-50.
The characteristics of health status of the elderly as well as the assumptions about their future tendencies indicate that primary health care for the elderly is becoming a prominent part of the overall health care. By developing the family practice, elderly people should be provided with different obligatory forms of primary health care--obligatory preventive minimum: health education and guidance, systematic medical examinations, maintenance and development of the existing functional abilities of patients such as treatment, nursing and rehabilitation in patients homes and homes for the elderly, as well as delivery of urgent medical care. The basic principle in health care for the elderly within the primary health care is an active and epidemiologic approach in a certain field, which includes the choice of family physician whose team could provide an integrated comprehensive primary health care which would be at the same time appropriate to the population health needs and also efficient and rational.
老年人健康状况的特点以及对其未来趋势的假设表明，老年人的初级卫生保健正成为整体卫生保健的一个突出部分。通过发展家庭医疗，应为老年人提供不同形式的强制性初级卫生保健——强制性预防最低标准：健康教育与指导、系统的医学检查、维持和发展患者现有的功能能力，如在患者家中和养老院进行治疗、护理和康复，以及提供紧急医疗护理。初级卫生保健中老年人保健的基本原则是在特定领域采取积极的流行病学方法，这包括选择家庭医生，其团队能够提供综合全面的初级卫生保健，同时适合人群的健康需求，并且高效合理。
