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An Emerging Vision

David B. Reuben, MD

JAMA. 2007;298(22):2673-2674.

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With the increase in life expectancy and aging of the baby boom generation, the United States is rapidly becoming a country in which health care needs are driven by older persons with chronic diseases. Unfortunately, the current health care system is unable to provide high-quality care for this population, particularly for those who have geriatric conditions such as dementia, falls, and urinary incontinence.¹ In response to poor quality, the Institute of Medicine has called for fundamental changes in how care is provided.² Such change has been exceptionally difficult because of an outmoded financing system, slow adoption of information technology, and overwhelming inertia in all sectors of the health care delivery system.

Over the last 2 decades, a variety of models have been developed and tested to improve the care of older persons.^3-4 The sum of this research is an emerging vision of optimal health care delivery . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Author Affiliation: David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, University of California, Los Angeles.

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