Huffington Post Blog: Persons With Dementia Deserve A Better Trained Health Workforce
A Huffington Post blog highlights the need for training for healthcare providers and caregivers on Alzheimer’s disease and dementia symptoms and talks about the Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP).
In 2015-2016, the GWEP reached more than 57,500 individuals, 22% of whom were patients, families or, lay caregivers, and members of over 45 professions and disciplines were trained. Nearly one in five GWEP trainees was a medical student, and over 100,000 faculty and practicing professionals participated in nearly 1,200 unique continuing education courses offered by GWEP grantees.
The article authors are from Rush University Medical College and from The John A. Hartford Foundation-supported Eldercare Workforce Alliance, under a geriatrics workforce grant to the American Geriatrics Society to set up and run a Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program National Coordinating Center.
To read the blog, click here.
To learn more about the Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program National Coordinating Center, click here.
