BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES We addressed a lack of geriatric content in our third-year family medicine clerkship. Adding this content posed a challenge in that students are dispersed to clinical sites across New England. Our goal was to promote student skill in functional assessment of elderly patients. METHODS We used multiple formats: a workshop, a small-group case discussion, an online video...

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...

BACKGROUND Patient participation is required by law in Norway and in several western countries. Current participation ideology is based on individualism, which may conflict with the older generation's commonly held values of solidarity and community. Hence, different values and ideologies may come in conflict when older patients receive treatment and rehabilitation in geriatric wards. Participa...

INTRODUCTION We hypothesized that a geriatric chief complaint-based didactic curriculum would improve resident documentation of elderly patient care in the emergency department (ED). METHODS A geriatric chief complaint curriculum addressing the 3 most common chief complaints-abdominal pain, weakness, and falls-was developed and presented. A pre- and postcurriculum implementation chart review ...