Charlene Harrington, PhD, RN, is professor of sociology and nursing; Leslie Ross, PhD, is a research specialist and principal investigator of the Calqualitycare.org website project; and Jeffrey Newman, MD, MPH, is a professor at the Institute for Health and Aging, all at the University of California, San Francisco.
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