Author: Publisher:
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Category : Aged
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
Book Description
Geriatric Training Curriculum for Public Health Professionals
Author: Training Physicians to Care for Older Americans
Author: David B. ReubenPublisher: National Academies
ISBN:
Category : Geriatrics
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
This background paper, prepared by two members of the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Strengthening the Geriatric Content of Medical Education, addresses the progress made in physicians' geriatric and gerontological education. The report appears in six chapters. After a brief introduction on health care reform and medical education, geriatric medicine and geriatricians are discussed in chapter 2. Some of the topics examined here include the historical development of geriatrics, physician certification, and the utilization and financing of health services. Chapter 3 analyzes past efforts to develop geriatrics and explores increases in geriatric faculty, geriatric fellowship programs and residencies, continuing medical education, and obstacles to the development of academic geriatrics. Chapter 4 assesses the demand for geriatricians and faculty, while in chapter 5, some strategies to strengthen physicians' geriatrics training are presented. Some of these strategies include revised financial policies, the revamping of service delivery, the strengthening of faculty development and academic programs, and recruiting and marketing ideas. The last chapter comments briefly on the 1993 Institute of Medicine Report. The recommendations made in the above report were grouped into five categories: (1) improved education in geriatrics; (2) leadership centers; (3) enhanced attractiveness of geriatrics; (4) revision in payment policies; and (5) research support. (RJM)
Geriatric Interdisciplinary Team Training
Author: Eugenia L. SieglerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The authors discuss their experience as participants in the groundbreaking Hartford Foundation initiative to create geriatric interdisciplinary team training (GITT) programs in 8 model sites nationwide. They suggest various solutions to the problems one is most likely to encounter while designing and implementing GITT programs.
Report on Education and Training in Geriatrics and Gerontology
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Federal aid to higher education
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Excellence in geriatrics good education, good practice, good policy
Author: Kimberly Spruill SmithPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428927263
Category : Geriatrics
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
A National Agenda for Geriatric Education
Author: Susan M. KleinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geriatrics
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Includes bibliographical references.
On role and training of professional personnel
Author: United States. National Advisory Committee for the White House Conference on AgingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Older people
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Clinical Education in Geriatrics
Author: Judith L. HowePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000650626
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This book highlights both recent innovations in professional health curricula and continuing education and interventions aimed at improving student attitudes towards geriatrics and aging. The contributors cover areas including simulation, online training, and standardized patients for evaluation, but also emphasize the important end-result of clinical training: to take care of real older adults outside the classroom. Importantly, this underscores the development of powerful learning experiences of students by sensitizing them to the frameworks of palliative care, cancer care, sexuality, and aging research, all of which serves as a powerful catalyst for creating a ‘pipeline’ of students who embrace aging as a central theme of their future work. As increased training in geriatrics is required to attune the health care workforce to the needs of older adults, this book will be of interest to those seeking to create a more age-friendly healthcare curriculum. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Gerontology & Geriatrics Education journal.
Retooling for an Aging America
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309115876
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
As the first of the nation's 78 million baby boomers begin reaching age 65 in 2011, they will face a health care workforce that is too small and woefully unprepared to meet their specific health needs. Retooling for an Aging America calls for bold initiatives starting immediately to train all health care providers in the basics of geriatric care and to prepare family members and other informal caregivers, who currently receive little or no training in how to tend to their aging loved ones. The book also recommends that Medicare, Medicaid, and other health plans pay higher rates to boost recruitment and retention of geriatric specialists and care aides. Educators and health professional groups can use Retooling for an Aging America to institute or increase formal education and training in geriatrics. Consumer groups can use the book to advocate for improving the care for older adults. Health care professional and occupational groups can use it to improve the quality of health care jobs.
Personnel for Health Needs of the Elderly Through the Year 2020
Author: United States. Department of Health and Human ServicesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geriatrics
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
