Improving care transitions for older adults

Affiliations

¹ Care of the elderly resident in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto in Ontario.
² Clinician scientist and geriatrician at St Michael's Hospital and the University of Toronto.

Alannah Delaine Mulholland et al. Can Fam Physician. 2025 May.

. 2025 May;71(5):337-338.

doi: 10.46747/cfp.7105337.

¹ Care of the elderly resident in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto in Ontario.
² Clinician scientist and geriatrician at St Michael's Hospital and the University of Toronto.

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