Nursing in the Care of Older Adults, latest
Edition — All Chapters Covered 1–23
(Latest Update)
Importance and purposes of Geriatric care models - answers--Geriatric models save money
because they improve quality and the overall health and wellbeing of older adults.
-Geriatric care models were created as the recognition that the older adult has significantly
more complex and unique needs compared to any other generation.
-Geriatric Care models broadly center on hospital delivery, transitional care, emergency
department care, outpatient and community care.
Clinical Video Telehealth (CVT) model - answers-model is helpful in providing dementia care and
supporting dementia caregivers.
GERI Pact - answers--Outpatient geriatric evaluation care model.
-a specialized patient care medical home model to provide high quality coordinated care to
older adults over 65 with more risk of negative health and psychosocial outcomes similar to
that of transition models.
-deliver focused care to Veterans with multiple chronic diseases as well as coexisting cognitive,
functional, and psychosocial and provides these patients and their caregivers with a single
point-of-contact for intensive, interdisciplinary Geriatric Primary Care
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