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Diffusing Geriatric Nursing Knowledge
The majority of all U.S. health care is devoted to older adults, and the aging population comprises hospitals’ core business.…
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Caring for our Parents and Grandparents (and Ourselves)
As the baby boomer generation ages, the medical profession faces a new challenge: How to care for an incresingly older…
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Aging in the 21st Century: Is the Healthcare Workforce Prepared?
As the rest of the nation ages, so do the doctors, nurses and other health care professionals headed for retirement.…
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University of Miami Center on Aging: Demographics of an Aging Society
On their face, the statistics are striking. In 2006, about 37 million people in the United States were 65 or…
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Global Population Aging
The world population is aging at an exponential rate; factors include the baby boomer generation growing older, the general population…
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Coming Soon: Slowing Human Aging
Once only a prospect of science fiction, modern medical advances are closer than ever to determining ways to slow human…
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Suffering in Silence
When considering domestic violence, most individuals would not immediately conjur images of aging persons who have suffered physical or psychological…
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Confronting the Challenges of Elder Abuse
This presentation provided a statistical and historic overview of the scope of the nation’s elder abuse, neglect and exploitation problem;…
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HuffPo: EMR cost estimates involve ‘fuzzy math’
Fred Schulte, writing for the Huffington Post Investigative Fund, worked to understand the math needed to attach a $19 billion…
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Reporting Health Stories from any Beat
These presentations are from the California Chicano News Media Association's Job Opportunities Conference, Oct. 15 & 16, in Los Angeles.…
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