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Training and supporting subspecialty clinician–scientists in aging research through GEMSSTAR and Clin‐STAR

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: As the population ages, more older adults seek care for acute and chronic conditions from medical and surgical specialists.Yet, many specialists have not received specific training in the optimal care of older adults.Moreover, research-based evidence to support specific strategies to prevent, diagnose and manage these conditions among older adults, including evaluating patient-centric outcomes, is lacking, especially within the vast array of medical and surgical specialties.The 2008 Institute of Medicine report Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce 1 emphasized the critical need for training of additional health care personnel to address the medical needs of a growing population of older Americans with complex medical problems as well as for funding to advance care strategies.To address the shortage of specialty-based physicians and other clinicians trained to meet the needs of the growing aging population, the National Institute on Aging (NIA) launched

Source: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

DOI: 10.1111/jgs.18811

Authors: Thomas M. Gill, Andrea N. Sherman, Odette van der Willik, Kristine Yaffe, Jeremy D. Walston

Institutions: Yale University, American Federation for Aging Research, University of California, San Francisco, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Medicine

Language: English

Topic: Health and Medical Research Impacts

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences