Integrated Care for Older People handbook

This booklet has been prepared by Doctor Yuka Sumi and Doctor Matteo Cesari, from the Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child & Adolescent Health & Ageing (MCA) at the World Health Organization, in Geneva, Switzerland. You will see that osteoarthritis is mentioned several times in this document.

 

Who is this handbook for?

The primary audience for this handbook is health workers in primary care, which include doctors, nurses, community health workers, pharmacists, nutritionists, social workers, care workers and physiotherapists, among others. The language used is purposefully simple to make the handbook accessible to as many health workers as possible, with varying levels of training in older people’s health and for whom English is not a first language.