Making Changes to Care For Older Adults

NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Health-system Elders), a program, developed by the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at the NYU College of Nursing to help hospitals make systemic changes in the way they care for older adults, recently held their annual conference in Philadelphia. Pictured at left is Elizabeth Capezuti, NYU associate professor of nursing and Hartford Institute co-director, left, with keynote speaker Neville Strumpf, Edith Clemmer Steinbright Professor in Gerontology and director of the Center for Gerontologic Nursing Science at the University of Pennsylvania, who also chairs the NYU College of Nursing Board of Advisors.