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Meeting the current and future health-care needs of Sri Lanka’s ageing population / Dilhar Samaraweera;Shiromi Maduwage

Tác giả : Dilhar Samaraweera;Shiromi Maduwage

Nhà xuất bản : World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia

Năm xuất bản : 2016

Chủ đề : 1. ageing. 2. elderly care. 3. geriatrics. 4. multidisciplinary care,. 5. Sri Lanka. 6. Journal / periodical articles.

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Sri Lanka is one of the fastest-ageing countries in the world. This rapid demographictransition is expected to result in one quarter of the population being elderly bythe year 2041. Profound challenges face the country as a result, especially withrespect to planning adequate elderly-oriented services in the social-care andhealth-care sectors. In response to this need, many initiatives have been put inplace to promote and protect the welfare of older people, and these rights havebeen inscribed in law. Within the health sector, despite the wealth of policies andinitiatives in recent years, it is clear that the existing health infrastructure andsystems still require strengthening, reorientation and coordination, to meet theneeds of the growing population of elderly individuals. Lessons learnt from thesuccesses in reducing the maternal mortality ratio can be applied to strengtheningpreventive services at the community level, to ensure active healthy ageing inSri Lanka. Engagement of specialist medical officers of health and generalpractitioners to provide preventive and curative primary-care services wouldreduce current pressures on higher-level services. Expansion of dedicated elderlycare wards and units at the tertiary level would restructure care towards changingpatient demographics. The key to success in these strategies will be increasingthe proportions of the medical, nursing and allied professional cadres who havebeen trained in geriatric medicine. Such capacity-building in the care of the elderlywill allow a move towards provision of multidisciplinary teams that can manage thecomplex physical, social and psychological needs of the older patient.
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