Health Care for Older Persons, A country Profile: The Netherlands

HEALTH CARE SYSTEM In the Netherlands, there are four medical specialties clinical geriatrics, nursing home medicine, social geriatrics, and geriatric psychiatry that focus primarily on geriatric care. Nevertheless, and despite a high rate of institutionalization (8% of older people are in residential or nursing homes), the general practitioner continues to act as the gatekeeper for additional intensive medical care services in most geriatric situations. The objective of this paper is to describe how medical care for older people functions in the Netherlands.

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