Addressing the health needs of frail elderly people: Ontario’s experience with an integrated health information system

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Frail elderly people comprise a subpopulation that poses numerous important challenges for the health care system. In Canada, like most developed nations, per capita health care expenditures rise disproportionately with age [1]. Although there is widespread concern in the popular media that population ageing will have catastrophic financial consequences, it is generally felt that population ageing has played a minor role in rising health expenditures in Canada [2], and it will be possible to cope with the costs of caring for future cohorts of the elderly if we manage the health care system appropriately.

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