Growth and impact of Project ECHO for workforce development in age-friendly care.

Background: Use of the Project ECHO® (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) model in geriatrics has increased dramatically largely because of the Health Resources and Services Administration-funded Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Programs (GWEP) utilizing it as a key tool for age-friendly, interprofessional workforce development. This manuscript describes the scope and impact of geriatrics ECHOs under the GWEP.

Methods: A survey of GWEPs was conducted to measure the reach, foci, evaluation methods, and other characteristics of ECHO networks.

Age Friendly Care: What do Community Aging Services Professionals Need to Know?

There is an increasing need for community-based health education to help older adults understand and manage their complex medical needs. Community Aging Services Professionals (CASPs) are non-medical service providers who facilitate aging in place by providing health education, socialization, and care coordination for older adults in community settings. Through in-depth interviews with 13 CASPs, this study assessed CASPs' knowledge of older adults' medical issues and health education needs.

Management and outcomes of a COVID-19 outbreak in a nursing home with predominantly Black residents.

Background/objectives: Few studies present clinical management approaches and outcomes of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreaks in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). We describe outcomes of a clinical management pathway for a large COVID-19 outbreak in an urban SNF with predominantly racial minority (>90% black), medically complex, older residents.

Design: Single-center, retrospective, and observational cohort study (March 1, 2020-May 31, 2020).

Informal Caregiving in a Medically Underserved Community: Challenges, Construction of Meaning, and the Caregiver-Recipient Dyad.

Little is known about informal caregivers' challenges in medically underserved communities. This qualitative study explores their perceptions/experiences of caregiving in a medically underserved community in Midwest United States. Two focus groups ( = 12) were conducted and themes were extracted and analyzed.

ECHO-Chicago Geriatrics: using telementoring to "geriatricize" the primary care workforce.

The primary care workforce is under-prepared to care for the growing older adult population. Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) is a continuing education intervention that connects subspecialists and community health care providers (HCPs) via videoconferencing technology for didactic and case-discussion sessions. : We asked participants to complete 8 to 12 educational telementoring sessions.