Improving the Primary Care of Older Adults
Collaborative Education. Traineeships. Client Egagement. Enhanced Community-Clinical Linkages.

Winter 2022: Geriatric Healthcare Lecture Series

Registration is OPEN for our Geriatric Healthcare Series set to begin January 4th, 2022. 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..

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Opioid Dependence in Older Adults

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

Teleconference is lifeline for seniors

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.

New Publication!

We are delighted to announce the publication of our first article, Project ECHO – Geriatrics: Training Future Primary Care Providers to Meet the Needs of Older Adults in the Journal of Graduate Medical Education (JGME).

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"Geriatrics is just made to save money"

Our own Katherine Bennett, MD testified February 5th, 2019 at the US senate HELP Committee Hearing about the merits of our Project ECHO – Geriatrics and our NW GWEC’s educational activities to better prepare the primary care workforce to care for older adults and ultimately reduce health care costs.

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Geriatric Healthcare Lecture Series

Virtual lectures series offered twice a year: General Geriatrics and Alzheimers Disease and Related Dementias

Project ECHO-Geriatrics

A knowledge-sharing approach where expert teams lead virtual sessions, amplifying the capacity of providers to care for older adults

Advanced Practice
Nurse Traineeship

Annually awarded geriatrics traineeships that support advance practice nurses in their geriatrics education

Primary Care Liaison

An Area Agencies on Aging based position aimed at improving community-clinic linkages through primary care outreach

Area Agency on Aging Practicum

A unique experience connecting the trainees to community-based resources with first-hand exposure to the Aging network

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27 Sep

A lovely write-up of @KateBUW in @UW Faculty Spotlight. #HealthyAgingMonth

UW Department of Medicine@UWDeptMedicine

In honor of #WomenInMedicine Month & #HealthyAgingMonth, our Sept. spotlights are on Dr. Katherine Bennett (@KateBUW) and Shinetra Pryor - leaders of the Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Program!
Faculty Spotlight: https://medicine.uw.edu/news/faculty-spotlight-dr-katherine-bennett
Staff Spotlight:
https://medicine.uw.edu/news/staff-spotlight-shinetra-pryor

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