Shaping the quality of health care for the elderly: are nursing students prepared?
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Oral Health Assessment by Lay Personnel for Older Adults
Published on: February 2, 2020
1Center for Nursing Research, New York University Division of Nursing, New York, USA.
Nursing and Health Care Perspectives
|January 20, 2000
Abstract:
Today, with few exceptions, a nurse's typical patient is an older adult. People 65 and over represent 12.8 percent of the American population. Older adults account for over 60 percent of ambulatory adult primary care visits, 80 percent of home care visits, 48 percent of in-hospital patients, and 85 percent of residents in nursing homes.
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