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The pace of devolving continuing care from hospital wards to private accommodation, NHS nursing homes or facilities managed by voluntary or charitable organizations is accelerating. Increasing numbers of consultants are finding that they have few, if any, continuing-care patients. It is almost as if the speciality of elderly patient medicine is losing its raison d’etre, since it began in the days when consultants such as Marjory Warren took over continuing care wards. However, there will still be consultants in elderly patient medicine who will retain direct clinical care of long-stay patients, and it is to them that this chapter is particularly directed.
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Denham, M.J. (1991). The physician and the continuing-care patient. In: Denham, M.J. (eds) Care of the Long-Stay Elderly Patient. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3380-5_3
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