Preventive Medicine and the disappearance of random causes of death
in developed countries have led to ageing populations and the
consequent need for radical change in health service provision.
This book comes at an opportune time as the old-fashioned National
Health Service is reformulated to accord better with medical need,
most of which concerns the elderly population that is projected to
grow until 2025. Dr Thompson's book offers the modern concept of
age change to be due to human development, rather than 'decline' or
'degeneration'. The outmoded idea that a disease is something that
you either have or don't have is replaced by the modern concept of
homoeostatic disturbance producing changes that are at first
insidious and indistinguishable from good health arE one end of the
scale, but which later advance across the clinical threshold and
produce gross organic disturbance. The main function of the GP lies
in his longitudinal relationship with parents, requiring
understanding of the diseases of ageing and reducing the rate of
pathological change, so preventing as far as possible the need for
rehabilitation, the function of the hospital officer.
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