title: The longitudinal elderly person shadowing program: outcomes from an interprofessional senior partner mentoring program.
abstract: The University of Saskatchewan's Longitudinal Elderly Person Shadowing (LEPS) is an interprofessional senior mentors program (SMP) where teams of undergraduate students in their first year of medicine, pharmacy, and physiotherapy; 2nd year of nutrition; 3rd year nursing; and 4th year social work partner with community-dwelling older adults. Existing literature on SMPs provides little information on the sustainability of attitudinal changes toward older adults or changes in interprofessional attitudes. LEPS students completed Polizzi's Aging Semantic Differential and the Interdisciplinary Education Perception Scale. Perceptions of older men and women improved significantly and changes were sustained after one year. However, few changes were seen in interprofessional attitudes.
authors: Division of Geriatric Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. jenny.basran@saskatoonhealthregion.ca
authors: Jenny F S
authors: JF
authors: Basran
authors: Vanina
authors: V
authors: Dal Bello-Haas
authors: Doreen
authors: D
authors: Walker
authors: Peggy
authors: P
authors: Macleod
authors: Bev
authors: B
authors: Allen
authors: Marcel
authors: M
authors: D'Eon
authors: Meredith
authors: M
authors: McKague
authors: Nicola S
authors: NS
authors: Chopin
authors: Krista
authors: K
authors: Trinder
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000375:Aging; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004521:Educational Measurement; D017144:Focus Groups; D005853:Geriatrics; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000193:education; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008611:Mentors / Q000523:psychology*; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012525:Saskatchewan; D013337:Students, Medical; D013338:Students, Nursing