Adapted to fully remote, our Geriatric Healthcare Series begins March 30th, 2021. Help your geriatric population achieve optimum health. Learn the latest tips, treatments and guidelines for improving health in older adults in these new lectures. Earn 1.5 contact hours per lecture, a total of 15 credits for the entire series..

Our Project Director, Elizabeth Phelan, MD, MS, delivered an excellent presentation, Age-Friendly Healthcare: What Is It? How Do We Get There? at UW Medicine's Grand Rounds April 29th, 2022.

New educational resources: What You Need to Know About Opioid Dependence in Older Patients – 15 min Project ECHO – Geriatrics Didactic New Guidelines for Opioid Prescribing and What They Mean for Elders with Chronic Pain – 75 min Geriatric Healthcare Lecture

UW’s family medicine residents have monthly access to guidance on managing elder patients’ conditions. On the third Friday of the month, a team of geriatric specialists lead a teleconference, Project ECHO – Geriatrics, a teleconference that is one of the Pacific Northwest’s most concerted efforts to improve care of elderly people.