Title: Demographic Implications of Health Care in Sri Lanka
Description: By 2020, Sri lanka will experience South Asia's most rapid population ageing. This phenomenon will demand that a higher proportion of financial resources be allocated for health care services in the coming decades. The rapid increase of such financial resources required for health care services is attributable, in part, to a change in the disease pattern as well as to developments in medical technology. However, to a greater extent, it is due to an increase in the elderly population and the ageing of patients. In addition to financial resources, population ageing is likely to demand a great deal of human resources to cope with the fast increase in the number of elderly patients who need intensive human care.