A winter's tale
- Author:
- POWNALL Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Community Practitioner, 71(12), December 1998, pp.401-402.
- Publisher:
- Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association
The onset of winter brings familiar tales of elderly people at risk of illness and death from cold temperatures. The author asks why the winter months are so dangerous for the UK's elderly population when in other, colder countries no such problems occur.
- Subject terms:
- older people, physical illness, prevention, health;
- Location(s):
- Scandinavia, United Kingdom
- Link:
- Journal home page
- ISSN print:
- 1462-2815