Welcome to theAge-Friendly Healthcare: Interprofessional Training Program! Participants will learn key components of age-friendly, patient-centered, team-based healthcare of older adults through three interprofessional telehealth case sessions.
This training is offered through the HRSA-funded Project ECHO-Geriatrics (Links to an external site), a monthly interprofessional telementoring/consultation program focused on care of older adults in primary care. Each ECHO session consists of a mini-didactic focused on primary care of older adults followed by a case discussion of 1-2 patients presented by a regional clinician and insights shared by an interprofessional healthcare panel (geriatric medicine, social work, nursing, geriatric psychiatry, pharmacy, and Area Agency on Aging staff) and participants. Discussions focus on high quality interprofessional care of older adults largely based on the four Ms of age-friendly care (Links to an external site) (what matters, mobility, mentation, and medications). Patient case discussions are de-identified to protect patient confidentiality.
Project ECHO-Geriatrics (Links to an external site), an educational activity of the Northwest Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Center is based on the well-established ECHO (Links to an external site) (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) model. Since 2016, over 1000 regionally based clinicians and trainees have received training using this approach. Project ECHO-Geriatrics is now expanding to provide health professions students an opportunity to observe, learn from, and contribute to high quality interprofessional care for older adults.
Students will register for their choice of three of the eight Project ECHO sessions available (1 hour each on Zoom, offered monthly). Each session will be followed by a 30-minute debrief/discussion specifically for health professions students (also on Zoom in a separate link). The program will kick off with a brief online orientation/team building session, and all students will be asked to fill out surveys at course completion. Below are dates/times for eight available ECHO sessions and orientation.
Dates 2025-26 - Participants are asked to attend three Zoom sessions selected from the following, all held on Fridays, 12:30-2:00PM PST.
October 17, 2025
November 21, 2025
December 19, 2025
January 16, 2026
February 20, 2026
March 20, 2026
April 17, 2026
May 15, 2026
Additionally, there will be a 30 minutes intro/meet and greet session (on zoom) held on Wednesday Oct 1st at 5:00 PM. This orientation is highly recommended but not required for course completion.
3 easy steps to register:
1. Sign-up for a Sched account using your UW email and log in. 2. Log-in and select the ticket that aligns with your choice of attendance. If you are unsure please email Ashley at [email protected]. 3. Finally, select the sessions you would like to attend to fulfill Age-Friendly Certificate Program.
If you registered for a session that you are no longer able to attend we ask that you withdraw from the session. Please go into your Sched schedule and uncheck the session so that we are able to capture an accurate count of attendees in preparation of our sessions. This will open up registration for other attendees to register for sessions that may be full.
Zoom links for each session are included in the session invite! Remember there are two links for each session!
PLEASE save the dates of your sessions in your calendar!
For additional IPE opportunities please visit our website www.collaborate.edu!
