Geriatric Clinical Practice Series
Overview To enhance geriatric patients’ quality of care, we focused on educating two key members of the primary care practitioner team – nurse practitioners and physician assistants – about geriatric…
Sharing Your Wishes Toolkit
Toolkit Contents Sharing Your Wishes Health Care Agent Notecard Sharing Your Wishes Information Booklet Sharing Your Wishes Planning Guide
Geriatric Education for Rural Health Professionals
Overview With a limited number of specialist physicians, and few, if any geriatricians practicing in our regions, we offered the Geriatric Education for Rural Health Professionals program to rural health…
University at Buffalo Social Work Partnership Program
Overview To help meet the growing need for geriatric social workers, we provided a three-year grant to support the continuation of the University at Buffalo’s Hartford Partnership Program in Aging…
Powerful Tools for Caregivers
Overview In 2004, we partnered with the Erie County Caregiver Coalition and the University at Buffalo School of Public Health and Health Professionals to bring Powerful Tools for Caregivers to…
Step Up to Stop Falls Toolkit
This easy-to-use falls prevention toolkit contains a variety of resources for health care professionals who work with older adults, older adults themselves, as well as their caregivers. Examples include exercises...
Improving Quality Improvement
Overview A Quality Improvement Collaborative is a short-term learning program that brings together teams from multiple sites for improvements in specific area. The goal is to raise the bar on…
CODA: Creating Options for Dignified Aging in Erie and Niagara Counties
Overview When the New York Commission on Health Care Facilities released a report calling for the closure of four residential health care facilities beginning in October 2007, we approved significant…
Improving Transitions of Care: A Quality Improvement Collaborative to Benefit Frail Elders April 2007 through October 2008
As part of our 2007-2008 Collaborative to improve transitions of care, 13 teams implemented the Care Transitions Intervention developed by Dr. Eric Coleman of the University of Colorado Health Sciences...
Improving Transitions of Care Through Effective Family Caregiver Partnership: A Collaborative to Benefit Frail Elders
When older adults move from one care setting to another, such as from hospitals to nursing homes, or nursing homes to home care, the information that is shared with them...