Findings from an exploratory factor analysis on the 21 item `attitudes towards health care teams’ (Heinemann et al., 1999) are reported. Using data collected as part of an innovative educational program on geriatric team training program in the United States we report an exploratory factor analyses for 913 student trainees. The geriatric interdisciplinary team training (GITT) program funded by ...

Cathy R. Taylor, Joseph T. Hepworth, Peter I. Buerhaus, Robert Dittus, Theodore Speroff Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Tennessee Valley Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center (GRECC), VA THVS Health Services Research Center for Patient Healthcare Behavior, VA National Quality Scholars Fellowship Program, Vanderbilt University School of Medi...

Nursing home residents with psychiatric disorders deserve to enjoy the full spectrum of therapeutic options that are available to their counterparts living in the community. These therapeutic options, the “tools” of the geriatric psychiatrist, include a broad range of traditional and novel psychotropic medications, in addition to well-recognized nonpharmacologic interventions such as psychother...

The majority of older adults receive health care in primary care settings, yet many fail to receive the recommended standard of care for preventive services, chronic disease management, and geriatric syndromes. The Geriatric Resources for Assessment and Care of Elders (GRACE) model of primary care for low-income seniors and their primary care physicians (PCPs) was developed to improve the quali...

Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan, Nursing Care Division, Juntendo Geriatric Koto Medical Center, Koto-ku, Tokyo 136-0076 Japan Health Science Division, ELSEVIER, JAPAN 1-9-15 Higashi-Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 106-0044, Japan Division of Health Care Economics, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo113-8549, Japan E-mail: e-mail: [email protected]...

BACKGROUND Multi-morbidity, poly-pharmacy and cognitive impairment leave many old patients in a frail condition with a high risk of adverse outcomes if proper health care is not provided. Knowledge about available competence is necessary to evaluate whether we are able to offer equitable and balanced health care to older persons with acute and/or complex health care needs. This study investigat...

OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to identify potentially inappropriate prescribing using the Beers and STOPP criteria. The START criteria were applied to detect prescription omission in the geriatric population. We compared the utility of these criteria in institutionalised older people. METHODS Descriptive study reviewing the medication and clinical records of 81 residents (aged 65 year...

According to the United States Census Bureau, there was a 15.1% increase in the sixty-five and older population between 2000 and 20101 and is expected to climb to 16.3% by 2020.2 In addition, older adults have shown a greater need for health care resource utilization in America; while only 12.8% of the U.S. population in 2008, older adults accounted for 26% of office visits, 35% of hospital sta...