Health Promotion/Disease Prevention in Older Adults—An Evidence-Based Update Part III: Nursing Home Population

In this third and final part of our discussion on health promotion/disease prevention in older adults, we focus on these issues as related to the care of those elderly persons who have transitioned into living in long-term care settings. This article rounds out Part I (Clinical Geriatrics 2004;12[11]: 17-25), which dealt with maintaining successful aging in the community-dwelling older person through screening initiatives, and Part II (Clinical Geriatrics 2004;12[12]:18-26), which examined guidelines for counseling as well as use of chemoprophylactic agents and immunizations in such a patie...