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April 21, 2023

Geriatric Grand Rounds: Therapeutic Switches and Fall Risk – Are the alternatives any safer?

Elizabeth Phelan, MD, MS, our NW GWEC Project Director presented Friday, April 21st, 2023 at our University of Washington Geriatric Grand Rounds.
March 31, 2023

New Poster Presentation: Virtualizing our Area Agency on Aging Practicum

Congratulations to our three Primary Care Liaisons (Breanne Swanson, Phung Nguyen, and Felicia Sanchez) and their well-received poster...
April 29, 2022

UW Medicine Grand Rounds: Age-Friendly Healthcare: What Is It? How Do We Get There?

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.
February 5, 2019

“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.
July 18, 2018

Aging Innovation Award

Our Primary Care Liaison role working to create community-clinic linkages to optimize the care of older adults was 1 of 16 programs accepted for N4A’s Aging Innovation Award. Congratulations Allison and Melissa!