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  2. Year: 2016
  3. Month: February

Month: February 2016

Students Learning from and with Older Adults

Posted on February 12, 2016

For Yvette Egan, MS, RN, creating a learning experience that pairs nursing students with healthy, community-dwelling older adults was in the cards. Literally. Egan, a clinical assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of …

Posted in Issue 10Tagged aging in place, community engagement, health education, student research, Yvette Egan

Evidence-Based Practice Corner: What We Talk About When We Talk About Surgery

Posted on February 12, 2016

In the United States, older adults have more than one-third of all operations. Each year, some 500,000 elders consider major surgery, such as coronary bypasses or organ transplants. As people are leading not only longer …

Posted in Issue 10Tagged evidence-based practice, family caregivers, health education, hospitalization, managing chronic illness, surgery

Making Communities and Future Professionals More Dementia Friendly

Posted on February 12, 2016

“I had never considered working with older adults because I thought it would be sad and depressing, but now I have completely changed my mind.” That was the impact on one University of Wisconsin–Madison undergraduate …

Posted in Issue 10Tagged community engagement, dementia friendly communities, health education, interdisciplinary education, student research, Wisconsin health care

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