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Elder Care A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: Community Resources

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Elder Care A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: Community Resources

University of Arizona College of Medicine
Author(s):  
Lisa O'Neill, Lisa O'Neill DBH MPH, Jennifer Caragan
Sponsor: 
Donald W. Reynolds Foundation
Geriatric Education Center (GEC)
Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP)
POGOe Id: 
22015
Date Posted: 
04/08/2019
Date Reviewed/Updated for Clinical Accuracy: 
03/15/2019
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Abstract: 

Elder Care A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: Community Resources is one of a continuing series of practical, evidence based, Provider Fact Sheets which summarize key geriatric topics and provide clinically useful assessments and interventions. Initially developed for remote, rural clinical sites, they are useful for students and health care professionals from many fields and across a very broad range of health care settings.

Educational objectives: 

After reading this issue of Elder Care, you should be able to…

  1. Explain what are Area Agencies on Aging
  2. Provide older adults and their families and caregivers with contact information for community resources that might be useful to them
Additional information/Special implementation requirements or guidelines: 

Subscribers to POGOe are free to reprint Elder Care on their own stationery or in other publications without obtaining specific permission, so long as:

  1. Content is not changed,
  2. No one is charged a fee to use or read the publication,
  3. Authors and their affiliated institutions are noted without change, and
  4. The reprint includes the following statement: “Reprinted courtesy of the Arizona Reynolds Program of Applied Geriatrics and the Arizona Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program”.
Content Categories: 
Caring for the Older Adult
Patient Safety
Care Settings & Models
Intended learner audience: 
Advanced Practice Nursing Student
APRN
Nurse Educator
Pharmacists
Pharmacy Students
Fellow
Medical Student Clinical
RN
Entry Level Nursing Student
Physician Assistant
Practicing Physician/CME
Resident
Social Worker
Learning resource types: 
Independent/Self-Directed Learning
Quick Reference/Pocket Card
Discipline/specialty: 
Family Medicine
Internal Medicine
Nursing
Estimated time to complete: 
30 minutes
Conflict of Interest Disclosure: 
No, I (we) have nothing to disclose.
Already Expired Email Date: 
Wednesday, March 16, 2022 - 12:32am
Already Expired Email 1 month date: 
Thursday, March 31, 2022 - 6:32am
Expires 6mos Email Date: 
Thursday, October 28, 2021 - 1:39pm
Expires 3mos Email Date: 
Friday, December 31, 2021 - 10:39am
Expired Email Date: 
Friday, April 15, 2022 - 11:46am
Contact Person/Corresponding Author:
Laura Vitkus MPH lvitkus@aging.arizona.edu


Suggested Citation:
Elder Care A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: Community Resources. POGOe - Portal of Geriatrics Online Education; 2019 Available from: https://pogoe.org/productid/22015