What is it about?
Preparing students, soon to be professional how to care for older adults is facilitated through an inter-professional curriculum model that includes a variety of methods. Critical aspects of the initiative include relevant online modules addressing topics such as social determinants of health and motivational interviewing. Their learning and knowledge is then utilized and translated in another aspect of the initiative, The Inter-professional Care Management Experience (ICME).
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Why is it important?
We provide students with relevant experiences working with older adults preparing them to work in the field of gerontology and geriatrics with a wholistic perspective; including all concepts that impact health outcomes.
Perspectives
Writing this article was exciting and rewarding as I had the opportunity to work with colleagues I have written articles with before as well as new colleagues. The work we are doing to impact significant change in the health care arena is critical, especially at this time of significant increase in the older adult populations in our communities, this country and the world.
Barbara Gordon Gordon
University of Louisville
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This page is a summary of: Overcoming barriers to interprofessional education in gerontology: the Interprofessional Curriculum for the Care of Older Adults, Advances in Medical Education and Practice, February 2018, Dove Medical Press,
DOI: 10.2147/amep.s149863.
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