Pitfalls of the Teaching Nursing Home

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Recently, the establishment of a model nursing home that would be a site for teaching and research has been proposed by the National Institute on Aging.1 The idea of instituting academic nursing homes has gained impetus because of the burgeoning elderly population and the historical lack of research and training in the area of long-term care. The Institute's proposal states that just as research on the polio vaccine brought an end to the iron lung, "today's nursing home — the contemporary 'iron lung' of geriatrics — will be transformed by a strong research effort." Considering the fact that nursing-home care . . .

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