ABSTRACT
This chapter is based on the 311 elderly people, 39% of those interviewed, who were willing for their doctor to give us information about their health and treatment and whose general practitioner completed a questionnaire about them. This group contained a relatively low proportion of older women aged 80 or more, but comparatively high proportions of those who consulted their doctor frequently and who knew him or her well (see Appendix 2). Because of these last differences, these data will tend to overestimate general practitioners’ knowledge of their elderly patients.
