scholarly journals Saint Louis University GWEP Pivots to Virtual Service Delivery: Lessons Learned

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 475-475
Author(s):  
Max Zubatsky ◽  
John Morley ◽  
Marla Berg-Weger
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Cognitive Stimulation ◽  
Technology Literacy ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
Online Delivery ◽  
Saint Louis ◽  
Saint Louis University ◽  
Circle Of Friends

Abstract In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Saint Louis University GWEP quickly pivoted service initiatives to online formats. Despite challenges of technology literacy and access, GWEP faculty, staff, and students creatively adapted in-person programming to online delivery and developed new virtually-delivered services. These service delivery adaptations provided opportunities for educating students, residents, faculty, community partners, and older adults and their caregivers to gain new knowledge and skills while continuing to participate in programming. This presentation will highlight innovations in the area of services to persons with dementia through Cognitive Stimulation Therapy, caregivers through education and support programs, older adults experiencing loneliness and social isolation through Circle of Friends, and older adults and caregivers through a virtual geriatric assessment clinic. We share highlights here of our efforts to pivot programming, access new funding streams, and, in some cases, create online delivery, including valuable lessons learned.

scholarly journals BUILDING NETWORKS TO ADDRESS AT-RISK OLDER ADULTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S185-S186
Author(s):  
Max Zubatsky ◽  
Nina Tumosa
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Geriatric Assessment ◽  
Geriatric Medicine ◽  
Memory Loss ◽  
Cognitive Stimulation ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Saint Louis ◽  
Saint Louis University ◽  
Cognitive Stimulation Therapy

Abstract With the rise of older adults and the number of chronic health issues in this population, comes the need for greater collaboration across organizations and health care settings. Age-friendly health systems offer the benefits of providing the best care possible to individuals and families, connect people to specific community resources, and optimize the best access to services and programs. The Gateway Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP) has combined the efforts of Saint Louis University and a rural, critical access hospital to establish a care network across Missouri. Together, this partnership has created a number of services, initiatives, and projects to help older adults maintain independence and offer families ways to take of their loved ones in more effective ways. In this symposium, presenters from Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, Geriatric Medicine, Psychology and Nursing disciplines will introduce several areas of this age-friendly network. The four abstracts for this symposium include: 1.) Assessing At-Risk Older Adults through the Rapid Geriatric Assessment, 2.) Cognitive Stimulation Therapy for Individuals with Memory Loss, 3.) Predictors of Falls in Older Adults Across Partner Settings, and 4.) Development of program initiatives such as the Rapid Geriatric Assessment screening, Cognitive Stimulation Therapy, Falls Assessment in Seniors, and Care for Persons with Dementia in their Environments will be covered in detail. At the end of the four presentations, the presenters will highlight the importance of this collaborative network and ways for audience members to consider building an age-friendly network in their community.

scholarly journals Saint Louis University Primary Care Age-Friendly Health System Initiative in Rural and Urban Communities

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 729-729
Author(s):  
Marla Berg-Weger ◽  
John Morley
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Health System ◽  
Health Care Team ◽  
Cognitive Status ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Cognitive Stimulation ◽  
Team Approach ◽  
Caregiver Support ◽  
Saint Louis ◽  
Saint Louis University

Abstract The Saint Louis University GWEP partners with a rural Missouri critical access hospital and an urban Federally Qualified Health Center to support their transformations into an Age-Friendly Health System in their community. With an emphasis on the 4Ms, programmatic innovations include development and training of: 1) electronic health records integration of the Rapid Geriatric Assessment (RGA) for patients 65+ years old; 2) RGA-based protocol for Medicare Annual Wellness Visits (MAWV); 3) Interprofessional health care team approach; 4) Evidence-based or Evidence-Informed treatment interventions, including Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST), exercise and strengthening program, caregiver support, and Circle of Friends, an intervention for loneliness and social isolation. Outcomes will be presented which suggest increased assessment practices and improvement in functional and cognitive status. Successes and lessons learned regarding strategies to develop an Age-Friendly Health System in two different primary care settings will be discussed.

scholarly journals The Development of a Community-Based, Pharmacist-Provided Falls Prevention MTM Intervention for Older Adults: Relationship Building, Methods, and Rationale

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Mott ◽  
Beth Martin ◽  
Robert Breslow ◽  
Barb Michaels ◽  
Jeff Kirchner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Falls Prevention ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
Planning Phase ◽  
Engagement Process

The objectives of this article are to discuss the process of community engagement experienced to plan and implement a pilot study of a pharmacist-provided MTM intervention focused on reducing the use of medications associated with falling, and to present the research methods that emerged from the community engagement process to evaluate the feasibility, acceptance, and preliminary impact of the intervention. Key lessons learned from the community engagement process also are presented and discussed. The relationship building and planning process took twelve months. The RE-AIM framework broadly guided the planning process since an overarching goal for the community partners was developing a program that could be implemented and sustained in the future. The planning phase focused on identifying research questions that were of most interest to the community partners, the population to study, the capacity of partners to perform activities, and process evaluation. Much of the planning phase was accomplished with face-to-face meetings. After all study processes, study materials, and data collection tools were developed, a focus group of older adults who represented the likely targets of the MTM intervention provided feedback related to the concept and process of the intervention. Nine key lessons were identified from the community engagement process. One key to successful community engagement is partners taking the time to educate each other about experiences, processes, and successes and failures. Additionally, partners must actively listen to each other to better understand barriers and facilitators that likely will impact the planning and implementation processes. Successful community engagement will be important to develop both formative and summative evaluation processes that will help to produce valid evidence about the effectiveness of pharmacists in modifying drug therapy and preventing falls as well as to promote the adoption and implementation of the intervention in other communities.   Type: Original Research

scholarly journals Assessment of Annotation Needs of Botanists

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Ulate ◽  
M. Marcela Mora
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Botanical Garden ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Saint Louis ◽  
Saint Louis University ◽  
Digital Repositories ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Functional Aspects ◽  
Machine Readable

Annotation (i.e., making comments on a resource) is an important part of the vision for the Semantic Web as defined by the standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Its goal is to make Internet-published information and data, machine-readable to better utilize it. Despite the important role that annotation plays in the Semantic Web, many cultural heritage institutions have been slow to adopt it. The access to open historical biological literature hosted in digital libraries, like the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), has improved the efficiency of biodiversity research, especially in the taxonomic field. This amount of information has even greater potential for research if annotation capabilities are incorporated within those legacy digital repositories. As part of the project Consumers as Creators, developed by the Missouri Botanical Garden (MOBOT) with partners at Saint Louis University (SLU), the Web annotation needs of the botanical community were analyzed. Likewise, the practicality of using existing annotation tools to satisfy this community’s particular needs was assessed, including technical and operational considerations. To do so, 15 users of a botanical virtual library from five institutions were interviewed. Their answers were analyzed and classified taking into account the user role and purpose. Desirable functionalities of annotation software were classified into three orders of priority (Must, Should, and Could). Subsequently, six open-source annotation tools were evaluated (i.e. Digilib, hypothes.is, Pundit Annotator Pro, Recogito, rerum, and VGG Annotator) to explore if they fulfilled the annotation needs of botanists. The selected annotation tools were installed (when necessary), assessed based on different functional aspects, and their advantages and disadvantages were identified. Finally, a proof-of-concept prototype was developed to exemplify how those needs could be met within a digital library platform. Botanicus, a free portal to historic botanical literature from the Peter H. Raven Library at MOBOT, and rerum, functioning as a repository of annotations, were used to explore the implementation of a minimal subset of these requirements. A summary of the results of the assessment, the lessons learned and some of the best practices recommended are presented.

scholarly journals Transforming Primary Care Practice Into Age-Friendly Health Systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 729-729
Author(s):  
Marla Berg-Weger ◽  
Erin Emery-Tiburcio ◽  
Nina Tumosa
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Primary Care Practice ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Falls Prevention ◽  
Care Practice ◽  
Saint Louis ◽  
Saint Louis University ◽  
Rural And Urban

Abstract Transforming primary care practice to improve the health of older adults is a major focus of the Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP). Using the 4Ms of an Age-Friendly Health System (What Matters, Mentation, Medication, and Mobility) as a framework, presenters will describe their GWEP’s ongoing development, training, and evaluation initiatives aimed at increasing providers’ knowledge and practice skills, and improving older adult’s health outcomes. These initiatives are creating increased professional competencies in geriatric care that will: 1) help older adults maximize their health and wellbeing, and 2) better support caregivers and families. In this symposium, presenters from three GWEPs, Pennsylvania State University, Rush University Medical Center, and Saint Louis University will describe AFHS initiatives with rural and urban primary care partner sites. Educational and programmatic initiatives and strategies that map onto the 4Ms that will be discussed including geriatric assessment, dementia-focused interventions, falls prevention, opioid assessment, and caregiver well-being and support. Outcomes in older adult’s health and functional status will be discussed. Presenters will highlight the importance of building AFHS in primary care and strategies to bridge this framework into the community.

Saint Louis University Mental Status Examination and Older Adults

2021 ◽  
pp. 4351-4355
Author(s):  
Jenny A. Lagervall ◽  
Rebecca E. Ingram ◽  
Leilani Feliciano
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Mental Status ◽  
Saint Louis ◽  
Saint Louis University ◽  
Mental Status Examination
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