Abstract
The proportion of elderly people in the population is growing fast, and they are major consumers of health care. In addition, they require and will require for the foreseeable future a large number of carers and, as Muyskens points out, in this area of health care it is nurses who will be required, rather than physicians. ‘For the ailing aged and the chronically ill, the skills of the physician are really ancillary to the caring functions of the nurse’ (Muyskens, 1982, p. 100).
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Chadwick, R., Tadd, W. (1992). Nursing elderly people. In: Ethics and Nursing Practice. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11388-0_11
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