Interprofessional geriatric assessment in nursing home (IgAP): a curricular development in geriatrics.

ABSTRACT: The hallmark of medical action in geriatrics is the interprofessional treatment of the patient by a multi-professional team consisting of doctors, nurses and therapists with the aim of treating the patients primarily in a way that preserves their function and thereby enabling them to live as independently as possible. Therefore, at the beginning of every geriatric treatment, there is a multiprofessional geriatric assessment of functional abilities. With regard to successful medical action, this necessarily requires all health professions involved to understand geriatric patients and their limitations. Under ideal circumstances, their competencies overlap. From the point of view of the related disciplines, this means to teach working together with the other professions - interprofessionally

SUBMITTER: Rocker N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8953190 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature