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The Importance Of Aging In Nursing Care

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According to the US Census Bureau News (2015) there are 44.7 million of older people in U.S, which represent 14.1 percent of the total population who has aged 65 and older in 2013. The reality is that the population is aging rapidly and need professional’s trained nurses in gerontology to provide quality care, support and allow them to remain independent. Corzort Rachel (2008), who is an assistant clinical professor at the Lenoir-Rhyne College in Hickory in North Carolina, reports that the major consumers of healthcare are the older adults population. Corzort (2008) also predicts that being giving that the U.S. population is aging; many new nurses will devote more of their time caring for aged individuals (p.21). On the other hand, according

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