Who Cares For Older Adults? Workforce Implications Of An Aging Society
- 1 September 2002
- journal article
- Published by Health Affairs (Project Hope) in Health Affairs
- Vol. 21 (5) , 78-89
- https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.21.5.78
Abstract
There is a critical shortage of geriatrics-prepared health care professionals. In 2002 more than thirty-five million people were age sixty-five and older, and 23 percent of them reported poor or fa...Keywords
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