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Transitional care programs for older adults: Improving Canada’s core health services

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Dr Lori Weeks and colleagues conducted a study into the provision of transitional care programs in Canada and abroad, highlighting the need to build these services into the core healthcare system

Transitional care programs are critical for ensuring better health management and continuity of care, oftentimes when older adult patients are required to move between healthcare services and settings and are most vulnerable to worse health outcomes. Transitional care programs are also found to be beneficial in reducing acute-care health resources and costs in countries around the world, however, for numerous […]

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