title: Surviving the Silver Tsunami: Training a Health Care Workforce to Care for North Carolina's Aging Population.
abstract: North Carolina's aging population will require a health care workforce prepared to meet patients' complex care needs. The keys to training this workforce include continuing to mobilize the state's educational infrastructure to provide interprofessional, community-based experiences and maximizing exposure to new models of care.
authors.affiliation: associate professor, Division of Geriatrics, Duke University Department of Medicine; senior fellow, Duke University Center for the Study of Aging; staff geriatrician, Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, Durham, North Carolina mitchell.heflin@duke.edu.
authors.forename: Mitchell T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Heflin
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002959:Civil Defense / Q000193:education*; D004190:Disasters; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006280:Health Workforce / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000379:methods*; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009657:North Carolina