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Population Health for Older Adults

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To describe population health, one needs to start with understanding “why” population health exists. What are the elements that have come together to create population health today? The answer to “why” population health exists and is relevant today is that today’s health care providers are faced with two significant challenges and market shifts that have resulted in the need for population health. Basically, a new health care supply and demand dynamic have produced population health.

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  1. Jefferson College of Population Health, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Richard G. Stefanacci

  2. Inter American University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

    Alex Casiano

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. California Association of Long Term Care Medicine, Newbury Park, CA, USA

    Michael R. Wasserman

  2. Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA

    Debra Bakerjian

  3. Department of Clinical Pharmacy, University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Aurora, CO, USA

    Sunny Linnebur

  4. Division of Geriatrics, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA

    Sharon Brangman

  5. Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    Matteo Cesari

  6. Section of Geriatric Medicine, Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai, Beverly Hills, CA, USA

    Sonja Rosen

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  1. Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California, USA

    Debra Bakerjian PhD, APRN, FAAN, FAANP

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Stefanacci, R.G., Casiano, A. (2024). Population Health for Older Adults. In: Wasserman, M.R., Bakerjian, D., Linnebur, S., Brangman, S., Cesari, M., Rosen, S. (eds) Geriatric Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74720-6_97

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