Why comprehensive assessment can be crucial
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Why comprehensive assessment can be crucial

Nicky Hayes Consultant editor, Nursing Older People

Care home residents are often among the frailest of our older population. Despite living in a supported environment, residents can exhibit the full range of medical, functional, social, cognitive and psychological needs recognised in comprehensive assessment.

Nursing Older People. 30, 1, 5-5. doi: 10.7748/nop.30.1.5.s1

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