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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Inadequate health care for the elderly

Inadequate health care for the elderly

  • Neglect of geriatric medicine

Broader

Inadequate welfare services for the aged
Presentable
Inadequate primary health care
Presentable

Narrower

Overmedication of the elderly
Unpresentable

Aggravates

Unnecessary restraint of elderly patients
Presentable
Susceptibility of the old to physical ill-health
Presentable
Neglect of elderly in institutional care
Presentable
Abusive treatment of the aged
Presentable

Strategy

Advancing geriatric therapeutics
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #3: Good Health and Well-beingSustainable Development Goal #10: Reduced Inequality

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(D) Detailed problems
Biological classification
N/A
Content quality
Yet to rate
 Yet to rate
Language
English
1A4N
J6369
DOCID
12063690
D7NID
158535
Last update
Nov 3, 2022