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Shortage of Nurses / The Economist /
Aging With Dignity

The quality of our hospitals and health care depends on the quality — and quantity — of our health-care workforce. The Shortage of Nurses follows nursing students at two innovative programs designed to accelerate graduation and address the critical need for more health-care professionals in our state.

To University of North Texas economist Bud Weinstein, human beings are the most important resource in our society. Listen to Weinstein talk about the future he sees for our state in The Economist, as he explores problems and challenges that are ultimately very much about money.

Then, Aging With Dignity takes us into some of higher education's most innovative laboratories, where scientists and clinicians are tracking the intricacies of aging bodies and minds. Can we slow the crippling disabilities of age? Cure or better manage the cruel losses of Alzheimer's and other dementias? Patients and family members with little time and lingering hopes talk about a future facing a huge generation of baby boomers and those who will care for them.

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