Shared and proxy records may link nicely to discussions about compassion in healthcare? A family doctor, specialist doctor, health visitor, nurse, mental health worker may jointly only see a "patient" 10 to 20 times in a year for perhaps 20 hours in all whereas the patient and family and community live with the patient and the patient's problems 24 hours a day 365 days a year. Shared access allows parents of under 13s/16s/18s (depending on national laws, children of parents who lack capacity, spouses, partners, friends and even communities of patients with incapacitating, dangerous, life threatening diseases or disabilities to share the requirements of and knowledge about the condition(s) of their "loved", "cared for" (compassion) people for the rest of the time when the loved/cared for people are not under the direct face to face supervision of health and social care workers.
Ageing and health (who.int)
<https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/ageing-and-health>
- All countries face major challenges to ensure that their health and social systems are ready to make the most of this demographic shift.
- In 2050, 80% of older people will be living in low- and middle-income countries.
- The pace of population ageing is much faster than in the past.
- In 2020, the number of people aged 60 years and older outnumbered children younger than 5 years.
- Between 2015 and 2050, the proportion of the world's population over 60 years will nearly double from 12% to 22%.
HIFA Profile: Richard Fitton is a retired family doctor - GP. Professional interests: Health literacy, patient partnership of trust and implementation of healthcare with professionals, family and public involvement in the prevention of modern lifestyle diseases, patients using access to professional records to overcome confidentiality barriers to care, patients as part of the policing of the use of their patient data Email address: richardpeterfitton7 AT gmail.com
