The geriatric certificate program: collaborative partnerships for building capacity for a competent workforce
AIHC Scholarship Award
Description: This award is given to recognize and reward individuals who have made significant contributions to research and scholarship in interprofessional practice and education.
Eligibility: AIHC member in good standing for at least the past two years.
UNE congressional testimony highlights importance of collaborative learning
https://www.une.edu/news/2021/president-herbert-testifies-congressional-hearing-about-shortage-health-care-workforce
The Challenges and Opportunities of Advance Care Planning: Proceedings of a Workshop
Advance Care Planning (ACP) has long been a staple of caring for people with serious illness. To better understand the challenges and opportunities for ACP, acknowledge and highlight divergent viewpoints, and examine what is empirically known and not known about ACP and its outcomes, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness hosted a virtual public workshop. The workshop explored the paradox of ACP, its evidence base, ways to think differently about ACP, and various approaches to making it more effective.
Paying Family Caregivers through Medicaid Consumer-Directed Programs: State Opportunities and Innovations
Family members provide significant amounts of care to relatives with complex needs who live independently. Programs that pay family members to provide care can help support home- and community-based care for Medicaid enrollees and help states address demand for long-term services and supports.
Gerontology competencies: Construction, consensus and contribution
This article published in Gerontology & Geriatrics Education highlights the important efforts of the Academy for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE), its volunteer leadership, and the workgroup that led to the development of the first integrative "Gerontology Competencies for Undergraduate and Graduate Education" for the field. This article shares the mandate issued by the AGHE Executive Committee and GSA Council, and it describes the background, thought development, guiding framework and Delphi consensus process undertaken.
Integrating student-focused career planning into undergraduate gerontology programs
As global adult populations increase, university programs are well-positioned to produce an effective, gerontology-trained workforce. A gerontology curriculum comprehensively can offer students an aligned career development track that encourages them to: (a) learn more about themselves as a foundation for negotiating career paths; (b) develop and refine career skills; (c) participate in experiential learning experiences; and (d) complete competency-focused opportunities.
The use of personas in gerontological education
This undergraduate student project published in Gerontology & Geriatrics Education details the development of an innovative teaching tool and describes how Personas (fictional characters that are created through the amalgamation of physical, social, and psychological traits and have unique lived experiences) are used as part of an experiential learning assignment over the course of a semester. Student-generated Personas act to contextualize the broad course material, ranging from physical to mental health to environments to financial wellbeing in later life.
Improving undergraduate competence in multicultural gerontology practice with fresh pedagogies: A digital storytelling case example
Building on a student-led digital storytelling project, this article published in Gerontology & Geriatrics Education suggests that expanding definitions of two core constructs of social work education and practice, experiential learning and cultural competence, can improve outcomes for diverse older clients by increasing competence in multicultural gerontology practice. Beyond describing a one-semester digital storytelling project that occurred in an undergraduate gerontology practice course, the article shares findings from the project's evaluation.
Pursuing Age-Friendly University (AFU) principles at a major university: Lessons in grassroots organizing
This case study describes Michigan State University's AgeAlive program and its path from inception to a recognized program with a clear vision and strategic plan. Concrete goals include a complete inventory of aging-related activity on campus, a virtual hub for networking and information exchange, educational opportunities for students and elders, and building new retirement pathways. Michigan State's experience may benefit others interested in developing similar programs by offering strategies for moving forward amidst challenges inherent in large-scale, research-intensive institutions.