Hybrid approach offers option for long term older adult care.
Hospitals in the future will be called on increasingly to administer to the medical needs of an aging population. But what are alternative forms of care beyond nursing homes and what must hospitals do to position themselves with those alternatives? In the following article, the author discusses the advantages of a "hybrid approach" to caring for older patients.
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