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Informal Caregivers of Older Adults at Home: Let’s PREPARE!

Barbara Atkins, RN, MSN, ANP-BC; James P. Kowalski, RN, MSN, GNP; Jeffrey M. Keefer, M.A., M.Ed., M.A.; Gail Silver, RN, MS, GNP-BC; & Seon Lewis-Holman, RN, MSN, APRN-BC

Visiting Nurse Service of New York

March 2010

From the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, College of Nursing, New York University The continuing series of best practices in nursing care in older adults. Please click here to view PDF.


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