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This course is designed to promote understanding of the aging process and the role of the nurse with implications for promoting healthy aging and providing care across a continuum of care settings. Students will learn about U.S. and global demographic aging trends as well as other factors impacting physical, psychological, social, and spiritual well-being of individuals, families, and populations. Class discussions will include age-related changes and nursing strategies for promoting health, screening, and providing evidence-based care for older adults with complex co-morbidities, polypharmacy, and major geriatric syndromes, while managing health outcomes in various care settings and across transitions of care; economic and policy implications of health care provided by interprofessional teams for older adults; as well as national/international models of care. Learning application activities are designed to enhance student critical thinking in providing care and promoting health and independence in older adults. Prerequisites: NR.120.501-505