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Prevention and screening in the nursing home
1Department of Community Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Augusta, Maine 04330, USA.
Primary Care
|December 1, 1995
Abstract:
The primary care physicians must use screening procedures for the elderly that focus on function, with special attention paid to falls, incontinence, malnutrition, and sexuality. Nursing home staff and patients' families can be particularly helpful to the physician.