Geriatrics‐for‐Specialists Initiative: An Eleven‐Specialty Collaboration to Improve Care of Older Adults |
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| Authors: | Andrew G. Lee MD John A. Burton MD Nancy E. Lundebjerg MPA |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Ophthalmology, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas;2. Department of Ophthalmology, Weill Cornell Medical College, Houston, Texas;3. Department of Neurology, Weill Cornell Medical College, Houston, Texas;4. Department of Neurosurgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, Houston, Texas;5. Department of Ophthalmology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa;6. Department of Ophthalmology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas;7. Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas;8. University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas;9. Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland;10. American Geriatrics Society, New York, New York |
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| Abstract: | In the early 1990s, visionary leaders at the American Geriatrics Society and The John A. Hartford Foundation recognized that the marked and growing shortage of geriatrics healthcare professionals would lead to a U.S. healthcare system ill prepared to provide optimal care for the ever‐increasing number of older Americans. Led by the late Dennis W. Jahnigen, MD, they set forth a plan to address this shortage by collaborating with surgical and related medical specialists to create a series of programs to foster the highest quality care of older adults. Their unique programmatic vision was that every physician, not just geriatricians, would have basic knowledge and skills in geriatric care, because geriatricians cannot and should not meet the need alone. |
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| Keywords: | geriatrics surgery specialty specialties |
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