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    Providing Care to Older Adults
    • Continuity of Care for Older Adults
      • Challenges to Continuity of care
        • Many doctors and other health care professionals
        • Many settings
        • Many rules
        • Lack of access to care
        • Other problems
      • Strategies to Improve Continuity of care
        • Health Care System
        • Interdisciplinary care
        • Geriatric care managers
        • Electronic medical (health) records (EMRs)
        • People Receiving Care
    • Care Providers for Older Adults: Health Care Professionals
      • Doctors
      • Nurses
      • Nurse practitioners (NPs)
      • Physician assistants (PAs)
      • Pharmacists
      • Dietitians
      • Therapists
      • Social workers
      • Nurses’ aides
      • Home health aides
      • Medical ethicists
    • Care Providers for Older Adults: Family and Friends
      • Rewards and Challenges
      • Long-Distance Caregiving
      • More Information
    • Settings for Care for Older Adults
      • Health care professional's office
      • Hospitals
      • Surgical centers
      • Rehabilitation facilities
      • Home health care
      • Community services
      • Post-acute and long-term care
      • Hospice care
      • More Information
    • Care of Older Adults in the Home
      • Financial issues
      • PACE
      • Other models of home health care
      • More Information
    • Community-Based Adult Day Services
      • Financial issues
    • Respite Care
      • More Information
    • Retirement Communities
      • Financial issues
    • Assisted–Living Communities
      • Financial issues
    • Board-and-Care Facilities
      • Financial issues
    • Life-Care Communities
      • Financial issues
    • Nursing Homes
      • Supervision of care
      • Types of care and services
      • Selection
      • Financial issues
      • More Information
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