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HomeHealthKeeping Older Adults with Cancer Active and Healthy

Keeping Older Adults with Cancer Active and Healthy

Kristen Fessele, PhD, RN, ANP-BC, AOCN a senior nurse scientist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and a Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing Fellow at the University of California Davis School of Nursing. Dr. Fessele is developing an intervention to increase physical activity among older adults diagnosed with cancer to keep them active so they can maintain functional and cognitive improvements and delay frailty.

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Barbara Glickstein, MPH, MS. RN., Principal, Barbara Glickstein Strategies, www.barbaraglickstein.com She is a Strategist for Carolyn Jones Productions and worked on the documentaries, The American Nurse, Defining Hope and In Case of Emergency. Glickstein was co-PI for the  Woodhull Revisited Project. She was selected to participate in Take the Lead’s 50 Women Can Change the World in Journalism  2019. Follow her on Twitter @bglickstein

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