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Nurse Practitioners Critical in Treating Older Adults as Ranks of Geriatricians Shrink

Physician's Weekly

The Health Resources and Services Administration projects a 50% increase in demand for geriatricians from 2018 to 2030, when the entire baby boom generation will be older than 65. “We tend to be a little stronger in care coordination, family and patient education, and integrating care and social and medical needs.

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Black/African American Caregivers of Older Adults Living with Dementia: Fayron Epps and Karen Moss

GeriPal

Epps, all that education, everything you gave me was good. That’s at every conversation I share, “These are the statistics, this is what’s going to happen by 2030, 2050. Fayron: One of the key statistics I say is, “By 2030, nearly 40% of individuals that would be diagnosed with dementia would be Black or Latino.”

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