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Status of Psychogeriatrics in the Netherlands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2005

J.A.C. Bleeker  and
C. Jonker
J.A.C. Bleeker
Affiliation:
Provincial Hospital Santpoort, The Netherlands
C. Jonker
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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In 1989, the Netherlands had a total population of 14.5 million with 1.8 million people (12.3%) over 65 years old and 0.4 million (2.5%) over 80 years old. The 1989 total cost of health care was 35 billion guilders (19 billion U. S. dollars). Approximately 2.5 billion guilders (about 1.3 billion U. S. dollars) was spent on psychogeriatrics—largely on clinical facilities (96%), divided between 7,200 geriatric beds in psychiatric hospitals, and 22,600 beds in psychogeriatric nursing homes.

Type
International Psychogeriatric Developments
Information
International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , September 1990 , pp. 169 - 173
Copyright
© 1990 Springer Publishing Company

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