Decision-making capacity to execute a health care proxy: development and testing of guidelines
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This article examines the ability of aged patients to make decisions on the need for health care treatments. Data show that 73% of the cognitively impaired older people showed sufficient capacity to make such decisions.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2000
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Quality of care for older persons at the dawn of the third millennium
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Researchers, providers, insurers, and government agencies have played an instrumental role in improving and standardizing the quality of health care provided to older persons. The 2001 Institute of Medicine report 'Crossing the Quality Chasm', concludes that the entire system needs to be redesigned.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2003
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Experts recommend strategies for strengthening the use of advanced practice nurses in nursing homes
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The six suggestions advanced by the expert panel, constituted by the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing, are presented. These aim at the amelioration of use of advanced practice nurses.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2005
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