title: Healthy ager: an interprofessional, service-learning, town-and-gown partnership.
abstract: Healthy Ager, an interprofessional service-learning clinical experience for health professions students, is a semester-long program of wellness and falls prevention for community-dwelling older adults. It provides a foundation for competency in geriatrics for students in nursing, physical therapy, social work, and communications disorders. Such interprofessional education is recommended by the Institute of Medicine.
authors.affiliation: Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, USA. rmatthews@astate.edu
authors.forename: Rebecca L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Matthews
authors.forename: Beverly
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Parker
authors.forename: Shawn
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Drake
mesh_terms: D000058:Accidental Falls / Q000517:prevention & control*; D000368:Aged; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003479:Curriculum; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D005851:Geriatric Nursing / Q000193:education*; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D017145:Models, Educational; D018570:Risk Assessment; D015144:Southeastern United States