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A Training Program Using an Agility Ladder for Community-Dwelling Older Adults
Published on: March 7, 2020
Salvaging a geriatric medicine academic program in disaster mode-the LSU training program post-Katrina
Charles A Cefalu1, Robert S Schwartz
1Section of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA. ccefal@lsuhsc.edu
Journal of the National Medical Association
|May 31, 2007
Abstract:
Formal training in geriatric medicine in Louisiana is in its infancy. This article portrays the struggle of the sole functioning geriatric medicine training program and its trials and tribulations in a survival mode, opportunities that come with disaster as well as lessons learned post-Katrina.
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