Management of long term conditions

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Policy developments strengthening primary care provide the specialty of geriatric medicine an opportunity to review and strengthen its partnership with primary care. The Department of Health has promulgated a three level model for the management of long term conditions: self management, disease management and case management for those with complex and multiple conditions. It is this latter group that geriatricians have most to offer, backed up by the evidence-based practice of comprehensive geriatric assessment.

The British Geriatrics Society Primary and Continuing Care SIG offer a model of care for frail older people, and this is intended to be useful for the effective implementation of services for such people, including case management
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