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The present foreseeable demographic development in Germany shows a strong increase in the proportion of older people in the total population, which is even stronger than in most other developed countries (Statistisches Bundesamt, 2001a, 2003). There is a widespread belief that health care systems spend more and more to provide intensive and aggressive care to older patients (Canadian Health Service Research Foundation, 2003). On the other hand, recent studies indicate that approaching death, rather than age, may be the main demographic driver of health care costs (Seshamani & Gray, 2004; Yang, Norton, & Stearns, 2003).
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RAMROTH, H., SPECHT-LEIBLE, N., KÖNIG, HH., BRENNER, H. (2006). MEDICAL CARE FOR NURSING HOME RESIDENTS: NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES IN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT. In: Wahl, HW., Brenner, H., Mollenkopf, H., Rothenbacher, D., Rott, C. (eds) The Many Faces of Health, Competence and Well-Being in Old Age. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4138-1_20
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