Progress in the medical care of old people in the past ten years probably owes as much to better understanding of the kind of nursing and treatment needed to restore activity after illness in old age as to advances in medical science.
This report analyses the results from a scheme concerning a group of elderly invalids in Belfast whose family doctors thought might respond to treatment brought from the hospital to the home.
Suggested citation
Adams G F, McQuitty F M, Flint M Y (1957) Rehabilitation of the elderly invalid at home. Nuffield Trust.