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KMID : 0978920120130040133
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Korean Journal of Clinical Geriatrics
2012 Volume.13 No. 4 p.133 ~ p.152
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Long Term Care Center and Geriatric Illness
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Lee Dae-Hie
Lee Jai-Sook
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Abstract
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In 2008, it was incompletely set up the long term care system in Korea. Whereafter the act for long term care insurance was officially announced in Nov. 2011 and the act for dementia, Dementia Management Act, was drafted in Feb. 2012. In Korea health care system and public welfare system are slowly and step by step changed and improved. It make efforts to promote the welfare of the people, but is not provide good benefits for geriatric patients. In long term care center, there are so many elderly patients suffering from the neurological diseases such as strokes, dementias and Parkinsonism. Moreover, the neurological diseases have combined with multiple chronic diseases or geriatric problems (ex, gait and balance disorders, decreased nutritional status, constipation, depression, sleep disturbances, urinary incontinence, or joint pain). Principally, specialists including with neurologists or geriatric physicians are involved in these cases. In practice we are concerned about the special care plans of neurology and geriatric medicine in long term care center.
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KEYWORD
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Long term care system, Neurological diseases, Geriatric medicine
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