Geriatric Mental Health Disaster and Emergency Preparedness

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3 The Geriatric Emergency Preparedness and Response (GEPR) Collaborative: A Successful and Productive Network JUDITH L. HOWE The Geriatric Emergency Preparedness and Response (GEPR) Collaborative is an exemplary example of successful national networking for sharing and disseminating information, leveraging resources, and influencing policy. Networking is particularly important in the fields of gerontology and geriatrics where there is often competition for resources due to its interdisciplinary nature, a fragmented delivery system, and funding deficits (Johnson, 2006). The GEPR Collaborative has achieved the goals laid out in its 2002 mission statement and strategy plan—to develop and disseminate curricular material and influence policy—as described in this chapter. GERIATRIC EDUCATION CENTERS (GECs) The Geriatric Education Centers (GECs) are the only federally funded programs specifically geared to the education and training of health care professionals in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease and other health concerns of older adults. Initiated in 1985, there are currently 48 GECs that provide training through continuing education; curriculum development and dissemination; training and retraining of faculty; and clinical training in geriatrics in nursing homes, chronic and acute disease 47
48 Geriatric Mental Health Disaster and Emergency Preparedness hospitals, ambulatory care centers, and senior centers. Over the last two decades, achievements of the GEC programs include the following: n Training more than 425,000 health care professionals from 27 health-related disciplines to better serve the growing older adult population n Developing over 1,000 curricular materials on aging-related topics, including interdisciplinary team care, geriatric syndromes, ethnogeriatrics, cultural competency, health literacy, quality of care, rural health access issues, and bioterrorism and emergency preparedness n Delivering 282 distance learning programs to 37,000 health care professionals in rural and underserved areas (Advisory Committee on Interdisciplinary and Community-Based Linkages, 2006) THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GEC GERIATRIC EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE COLLABORATIVE The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, heightened awareness of the vulnerability of older persons in times of bioterrorism and emergencies. As is now well-known, older and disabled persons were trapped for days before help arrived after the Twin Towers collapsed. This led to a citywide effort in the following months to develop a system for ensuring agencies had emergency preparedness plans that included rapid and comprehensive assistance for vulnerable populations, such as older adults (O’Brien, 2003). Process of Developing the Collaborative At the national meeting of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) in November 2003, GEC representatives became aware of potential funding streams in emergency and bioterrorism preparedness that excluded older adults. That knowledge led to a quickly assembled meeting at the GSA conference of the GEC network with the aim of ensuring older persons were included in initiatives in this area (Johnson, 2006). It was a seminal meeting, as it essentially launched the movement of GECs working together to ensure health care providers received the necessary training and education to assist older persons in times of bioterrorism and emergencies.
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Dedicated to Flo Aaroe, who personi
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Contributors xi Foreword by Robert
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14 Geriatric Assessment for Differe
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