Telephone Support and Telemonitoring for Low-Income Older Adults

South Korea has had the steepest increase in annual growth of health care spending among member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (2015). The introduction of long-term care insurance, high prevalence of chronic diseases in the older adult population, and rapid aging of the population will increase the costs of health care, which has become an urgent national concern. In addition, the high poverty rate (approximately 50%) and high suicide rate (72 per 100,000 individuals) among older adults (age ≥65) are serious social problems in the nation (Jones&
Source: Research in gerontological nursing - Category: Geriatrics Authors: Source Type: research