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About one in five Medicare patients returns to a hospital within 30 days of being discharged. New programs aim to keep them home with on-the-spot care.
As part of health-care reform, lawmakers are tackling the problem of too few physicians to treat exploding numbers of older people. One bill would allot as much as $130 million to train doctors focused on care of older Americans.
The government estimates there will be a shortfall of more than one million registered U.S. nurses by 2020. Could the shortage hurt your care?
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