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Approach to Aging that Stands the Test of Time

By 2040, 1 in 5 Americans will be 65 or older and perhaps 28 million will be 80 or older. Improving care for the elderly and defining nursing’s lead role won’t wait until then.

Johns Hopkins Nursing’s Center for Equity in Aging is already leading the way through education (online courses on dementia and psychological issues of older adults reach tens of thousands of trailblazers across the globe); research (fall prevention to dementia intervention to a “guided care” treatment approach), and practice (via CAPABLE, a program that saves health care dollars by keeping seniors safe in their own homes longer, to Fuld Fellows and the student-based Geriatric Interest Group, enhancing and sharing knowledge on nurse roles and quality and safety of care.

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Faculty Spotlight
Katherine Ornstein
PhD, MPH, BA
Director, Center for Equity in Aging

Katherine Ornstein is Professor in the School of Nursing at Johns Hopkins with joint appointments in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She received her PhD in epidemiology from Columbia University where she […]

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