Position Statement on Interdisciplinary Team Training in Geriatrics: An Essential Component of Quality Health Care for Older Adults

Interdisciplinary team training (IDT) is an important component of ensuring quality geriatric care delivery, which can be complex and time intensive, requiring coordination of many medical, psychosocial, and therapeutic interventions and professionals. The Partnership for Health in Aging (PHA), a lo...

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Published in:Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) 2014-05, Vol.62 (5), p.961-965
Main Author: Partnership for Health in Aging Workgroup on Interdisciplinary Team Training in Geriatrics
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accreditation - standards
Aged
Aging
Biological and medical sciences
Delivery of Health Care - standards
General aspects
Geriatrics
Geriatrics - education
Health Personnel - education
Humans
interdisciplinary
Medical personnel
Medical sciences
Miscellaneous
Older people
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Quality of care
Quality of Health Care
team training
Training
United States
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Summary:Interdisciplinary team training (IDT) is an important component of ensuring quality geriatric care delivery, which can be complex and time intensive, requiring coordination of many medical, psychosocial, and therapeutic interventions and professionals. The Partnership for Health in Aging (PHA), a loose coalition of more than 30 organizations representing healthcare professionals who care for older adults supported by the American Geriatrics Society, identified IDT training in geriatrics as a priority area in addressing the geriatrics workforce shortage described in the 2008 Institute of Medicine report, Retooling for An Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce. A PHA Workgroup on Interdisciplinary Team Training in Geriatrics was convened to review the literature focused on geriatrics IDT training and to develop a position statement that would inform and influence groups involved in the development and expansion of academic and continuing education programs in IDT training, including professional associations, credentialing and licensing bodies, accreditation organizations, and university administrators. There are significant challenges to expanding the development and implementation of geriatrics IDT training for health professionals, and such training will be successful only with substantial and sustained advocacy from the above professional groups.
ISSN:0002-8614
1532-5415
DOI:10.1111/jgs.12822