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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.

Author: Mezey, Mathy, Teresi, Jeanne, Ramsey, Gloria, Mitty, Ethel, Bobrowitz Tracy
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2000
Psychological aspects, Statistical Data Included, Decision-making, Decision making, Analysis, Dementia

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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.

Author: Shekelle, Paul G., Wenger, Neil S., Reuben, David B.
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2003
Science & research, Health Care and Social Assistance, HEALTH SERVICES, Administration of Public Health Programs, Health Care Services, Medical & Health Services, Research, Old age, Medical care (Private)

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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.

Author: Mezey, Mathy, Reinhard, Susan C., Burger, Sarah Greene, Bloom, Harrison G., Bonner, Alice, Bourbonniere, Mary, Bowers, Barbara, Burl, Jeffrey B., Capezuti, Elizabeth, Carter, Diane, Dimant, Jacob, Jerro, Sarah A., Maat, Marilyn Ter
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2005
Management dynamics, Methods, Management, Medical centers, Geriatric nursing, Company business management, Medical centres

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Subjects list: Health aspects, Aged, Elderly, United States, Evaluation, Medical care
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