[Organization of care for citizens of pension age through systematic evaluation]

The increase in the efficiency of the process of complex care can only be looked for in the field of the improvement of the dispensatory care for the population of pension age by the family doctor. At present this form of care develops already for the citizens of old age in many towns and villages, in particular by paying periodically home visits without having been called for especially. In continuation of the accompanying care from the health protection of children and adolescents via industrial health protection the dispensatory care for the population of pension age could be continued systematically if the citizens were subjected to a serial examination in the year of entering pension age, and if the dispensatory care by the family doctor were introduced on this basis according to a care programme. The development and testing of such a model is currently worked upon at the Institute of Social Hygienics of Karl-Marx University.