1. A survey of voting in elderly psychiatric and medical in-patients
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Andrew Stanners, David Hargreaves, Suzanne Kite, and Wendy Burn
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medicine.medical_specialty ,media_common.quotation_subject ,education ,humanities ,030227 psychiatry ,03 medical and health sciences ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,0302 clinical medicine ,Voting ,medicine ,In patient ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Psychology ,Psychiatry ,health care economics and organizations ,media_common - Abstract
The UK has recently held a general election in which the future of the National Health Service has been a major issue. The elderly constitute a growing proportion of the electorate and are frequent users of the Health Service, yet some may have been unable to vote because they are in-patients. Elderly in-patients can vote by post or proxy or by being taken to their polling station by relatives or party representatives, but for many these arrangements may be inadequate.
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- 1993
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