INSTITUTIONAL AND HUMAN RESOURCES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE TO ELDERLY PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMSPEOPLE PROBLEMS

Autor: Lungu, Cosmin, Panait, Carmen Lavinia, Mihai, Adriana, Sfetcu, Raluca, Tudose, Catalina
Rok vydání: 2021
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14754387
Popis: Population aging is one of the demographic changes expected to have an impact on the need for health services and, implicitly, on the way they are organized to meet these needs. As a result of this phenomenon, the total number of people affected by dementia will double over the next 20 years reaching 65.7 million worldwide in 2030 and 115.4 million in 2050. In this context, it is advisable an analysis of human and institutional resources to better understand how the health system is currently addressing the mental health problems of the elderly and the possible adaptations of the system to better respond to future demands. The objective of this article is to describe the situation of institutional and human resources available to elderly people with mental health problems by determining the distribution of beds and physicians specialized in psychiatry, geriatrics and neurology at county level.
Databáze: OpenAIRE