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- and Community service.
- End-of-Life decision making
- Alzheimer's dementia
- falls and injuries in older adults
- geriatric health
- Other
- Health & Biomedical Sciences and Engineering
- Cross-cutting: U.S. –Mexico and Latin America: Social and Behavioral Issues
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Department: School of Nursing
Date: 15 November 2013 17:09

During her 18-year career as a nurse practitioner, Guillermina Solis, Ph.D., has seen the devastating effects a fall can have on an older adult’s health and independence.
Solis remembers treating a patient in her 80s whose life was turned upside down after she fell in her home and fractured her hip.
Full story: [ Link to University Communications ]