Healthy ager: an interprofessional, service-learning, town-and-gown partnership

• Published in: Nursing education perspectives Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 162 - 165
• Main Authors: Matthews, Rebecca L, Parker, Beverly, Drake, Shawn
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc 01-05-2012
• Subjects: Accidental Falls - prevention & control; Adult Learning; Adults; Aged; Aging; Aging (Individuals); Behavior; Chronic illnesses; Clinical Experience; Cognition & reasoning; Communication Disorders; Community Relations; Community-Institutional Relations; Core curriculum; Curriculum; Dietetics; Discipline; Education; Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; Evidence-based nursing; Geriatric Assessment; Geriatric Nursing - education; Geriatrics; Health aspects; Health Promotion; Home Visits; Hospitals; Humans; Interactive learning; Models, Educational; Municipalities; Nurses; Nursing; Nursing Education; Nursing Students; Older Adults; Older people; Physical therapy; Physical therapy for the aged; Reading Assignments; Recruitment; Risk Assessment; School Schedules; Service learning; Social Work; Southeastern United States; Therapeutics, Physiological; Universities and colleges; Wellness; Southeastern United States; United States > US
• ISSN: 1536-5026; 1943-4685
• DOI: 10.5480/1536-5026-33.3.162

Healthy Ager, an interprofessional service-learning clinical experience for health professions students, is a semester-long program of wellness and falls prevention for community-dwelling older adults. It provides a foundation for competency in geriatrics for students in nursing, physical therapy, social work, and communications disorders. Such interprofessional education is recommended by the Institute of Medicine.