The teaching about the care of the elderly in nursing training: the situation in Portugal

• Main Authors: Silvana Sidney Costa Santos (Author), Manuel José Lopes (Author), Maria Laurência Gemito (Author), Maria Vitória Casas-Novas (Author), Felícia Tavares Pinheiro (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade Federal do Ceará, 2013-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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This paper aims to look at the teaching situation of the nursing undergraduate degree's courses about eldercare in Portugal. A documentary research on the teaching programs in 39 nursing schools, 26 schools presented syllabus units related to the topic 'eldercare' and in eight of thes...