Geriatric Mental Health and Emergency Preparedness Curriculum

Geriatric Mental Health and Emergency Preparedness Curriculum
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
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Product ID: 18848

Abstract: 
In 2003, six federally funded Geriatric Education Centers proposed a coordinated effort to develop a comprehensive curriculum on bio-terrorism and emergency preparedness (BTEPA) with the aim of disseminating this curriculum widely through health profession schools, public health, health and social service agencies, and other agencies that serve older persons. It is our hope that this curriculum will be an important resource in the development, implementation, dissemination and refinement of training programs in the area of disasters and geriatric mental health.

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Educational objectives: 
To train students, faculty and health providers in mental health/illness and associated consequences of natural disasters and terrorist acts.

Learners will:
  1. understand the importance of a structured curriculum in Geriatric Mental Health and Emergency Disaster Preparedness and Response.
  2. realize that older adults require special consideration, for both mental and physical health needs, during and after disasters.
  3. understand the importance of training health care professionals to integrate the material into their practice.
  4. be able to implement the training plan.
Additional information/Special implementation requirements or guidelines: 
Due to size, the book has been scanned in four parts, and each part zipped.
Date posted: 
Wed, 09/26/2007
Date last updated: 
Fri, 07/09/2010
CME credits available: 
No
Has this product been peer reviewed?: 
No
Intended learner audience: 
Contact person/corresponding author: 
Judith L. Howe, PhD (judy.howe@mssm.edu)
Authors: 
Judith L. Howe, PhD
Andrea Sherman
John Toner
NLM Citation:
Howe, PhD, J, Sherman, A and Toner, J. Geriatric Mental Health and Emergency Preparedness Curriculum. POGOe - Portal of Geriatric Online Education; 2007 Available from: http://www.pogoe.org/productid/18848
APA Citation:
Howe, PhD, J, Sherman, A and Toner, J. (2007). Geriatric Mental Health and Emergency Preparedness Curriculum. POGOe - Portal of Geriatric Online Education. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from http://www.pogoe.org/productid/18848