From Research to Reality: Minimizing the Effects of Hospitalization on Older Adults

This review examines ways to decrease preventable effects of hospitalization on older adults in acute care medical (non-geriatric) units, with a focus on the Israeli experience at the Rambam Health Care Campus, a large tertiary care hospital in northern Israel. Hospitalization of older adults is oft...

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Main Authors: Hanna Admi, Efrat Shadmi, Hagar Baruch, Anna Zisberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Rambam Health Care Campus 2015-04-01
Series:Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal
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Online Access:http://rmmj.org.il/Pages/ArticleHTM.aspx?manuId=493