Geriatric workforce capacity: A pending crisis for nursing home residents

Frontiers in Public Health

Volumn 1, Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Lee, Wei Chen ^a   Sumaya, Ciro V ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Geriatric medicine; Geriatric psychiatrist; Geriatrician workforce; Nursing home; Older adults

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926626271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2013.00024     Document Type: Review

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