Geriatric nurse practitioners: vital to the future of healthcare for elders
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The increasing numbers of aged suggests geriatric nurse practitioners will be essential to the future of health care for older adults, but the labor pool cannot currently satisfy the demand. The best ways to encourage practitioners to enter this field include increasing status and salaries and improve working conditions.
Publication Name: Generations (San Francisco, California)
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0738-7806
Year: 2001
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The potential of technology to ease the care provider's burden
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Technology has increasingly provided assisitive devices that make caregiving emotionally and physically easier. These devices include ones to help in walking, bathing, dressing, transferring, eating, to control the internal environment, and to monitor behavior and health.
Publication Name: Generations (San Francisco, California)
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0738-7806
Year: 2001
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Research on frontline workers in long-term care
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Many long-term care workers experience low wages, stressful working environments, and few opportunities for career advancement. Developing a stable long-term care professional population is an increasing and systematic challenge for the 21st century.
Publication Name: Generations (San Francisco, California)
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0738-7806
Year: 2001
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