Geriatric Nursing
Volume 26, Issue 2 , Pages 106-110 , March 2005

Falls associated with dementia: How can you tell?

  • Deanna Gray Miceli, DNSc, APRN, FAANP

      Affiliations

    • DEANNA GRAY MICELI, DNSc, APRN, FAANP, is a board certified Gerontological Nurse Practitioner with expertise in falls. She is a post-doctoral scholar (2002-2004) of the John A. Hartford Foundation Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity Program at the University of Pennsylvania-School of Nursing, adjunct assistant professor, University of Pennsylvania and nurse practitioner/falls consultant, the New Jersey Department of Health and Human Services, Trenton, New Jersey.

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doi: 10.1016/j.gerinurse.2005.01.014

Geriatric Nursing
Volume 26, Issue 2 , Pages 106-110 , March 2005

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