PROPOSALS FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE INTEGRATED QUALITY MANAGEMENT AT HOSPITAL LEVEL REGARDING ELDERCARE
Abstract:
The social protection systems also include adequate health care services and long term care, whose costs often exceed the financial means of the patient and those of his family. The demographic changes will trigger a series of threats pointed at the health care systems, given the fact that the number of the aged persons requiring these care services will increase during the next decades. A series of measures will have to be taken in order to counteract the negative effects of aging, at social and individual level. The more and more health care services awarded to the old people require the need for the implementation of a system that has to cover the needs and to ensure a high level of satisfaction of those receiving them.
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