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What would a hospital visit or healthcare encounter look like that truly met the needs of older adults with complex care needs, functional limitations, multiple medications, and a set of geriatric syndromes? In the early 1990s Dr. Terry Fulmer set out to create a nursing practice model to address the complex and unique care needs of older adults. Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders (NICHE) of NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing positions nurses as leaders to integrate evidence-based care to promote function, reduce complications, and improve clinical outcomes for older adults. NICHE is one of a number of geriatric care models that emphasize a systems approach for hospitals and health systems to develop gerontological nursing expertise so that older adults receive the specialized care they need across the continuum of care. Today, more than 550 hospitals and nursing homes in the US and abroad have implemented the NICHE model to provide evidence-based nursing care to older adults. Extending the vision of ensuring that older adults receive evidence-based healthcare, Dr. Fulmer is leading a national movement to create Age-Friendly Health Systems. An initiative of The John A. H

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Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Mosby Inc.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 1528-3984)

Published

2019

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)