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Description
The OV AR consortium was created in 1985 as a result of a desire to improve the health care for older persons by enhancing the training of health care faculty, students and providers. The region has in common a large underserved area with a large and increasing population of elders at risk for poor health outcomes. Each university brings special strengths to the consortium arrangement, and by joining together, the four
universities are able to minimize costs while maximizing access to geriatrics faculty and
educational resources. OV AR serves 167 medically underserved counties in the entire state of
KY, southern OH, eastern TN, southern IN and southwestern VA. The administrative base is at
the University of KY and faculty infrastructures are established at all four institutions. Over 500
aging services Community linkages are in place across the region to assure OV AR success.
The 2004-07 OV AR needs assessments identified gaps in training and resources in the area of
transitions in care for elders. Frail older persons may receive care in multiple settings from
multiple health care providers and caregivers. Care may be transferred numerous times among
family and/or home health providers, general practitioners and specialists, emergency rooms,
intensive care units, acute hospitals, rehabilitation centers, nursing homes, and hospice. Within
each of these settings the responsibility for care may transfer to numerous departments and
interdisciplinary professionals without benefit of information, medical records, and
preferences/instructions for care. The problems inherent in interdisciplinary transferences of
aging care are multiplied in the OV AR region because rural Appalachian elderly are more likely
to be poor and less educated, operate in physical and social isolation, lack transportation
networks, and have limited access to health care delivery systems.
The OVAR needs assessments also identified five new audiences requesting OV AR training:
University of Southern IN, Pikeville College School of Osteopathic Medicine, Western KY
University, the Stoeckinger Foundation's Parish Nurses, and KY State University, a historically
African American/Black University. In response to these special audiences and needs
assessments, this project will include 6 Interactive TV blended technology case conferences, 12
regional geriatrics conferences, 3 Train the Trainer workshops on Alzheimer's disease, 9 aging
competencies workshops on care transitions, 6 national workshops on geriatric emergency
preparedness and response, 30 geriatrics grand rounds, and standardized patients trainings for
students. OV AR will create a new interdisciplinary Internet data base, curriculum and 3 standard
patients' scripts on health literacy in geriatrics. Training/resources will be targeted to health
provider/patient needs, and health status outcomes resulting from the use of assessment tools
disseminated in training will be reported following the AD train the trainer, aging competencies
workshops, and faculty training initiatives. A total of 17,016 hrs. for 4,389 trainees will result.
All project activities will be interdisciplinary and include Medicine and at least three other
disciplines. This project meets the five GEC statutory purposes; incorporate Healthy People
2010 and Geriatric Education White Papers recommendations; target national and OV AR
geriatric training needs in the underserved geographic area ofKY, southern OH, eastern TN,
southwest VA, and southern IN; addresses health disparities and workforce shortages; targets
patient-centered clinical practices and provides mechanisms for documenting patient health
status outcomes; and requests an administrative funding priority that will provide a total of 54
faculty with 1296 hours of training/retraining in health literacy in geriatrics.
missions, 69 SNF admissions,
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 9/1/07 → 6/30/09 |
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