Elder Care A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: Community Resources
University of Arizona College of Medicine
University of Arizona College of Medicine
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…
- Explain what are Area Agencies on Aging
- 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:
- Content is not changed,
- No one is charged a fee to use or read the publication,
- Authors and their affiliated institutions are noted without change, and
- The reprint includes the following statement: “Reprinted courtesy of the Arizona Reynolds Program of Applied Geriatrics and the Arizona Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program”.
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Estimated time to complete:
30 minutes
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No, I (we) have nothing to disclose.
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Elder Care A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: Community Resources. POGOe - Portal of Geriatrics Online Education; 2019 Available from: https://pogoe.org/productid/22015