[Health care priority requirements in old age]

Based on the results of long-term research of the health and social position of elderly subjects priority needs are discussed. This comprises adequate care in acute diseases, incl. their signalization, essential hospitalization and long-term treatment in sanatoria and dispensary care. The main link in the provision of comprehensive geriatric care are local health communities. For the dispensary care of the old people a special methodical procedure was recommended and priorities were defined for the first stage of implementation of the eventual dispensarization of old people. Already in the first stage it is recommended to dispensarize all people above 75 years.