Geriatrics programs

Cedars-Sinai 's dedication to serving our senior patients has earned it the highest level of recognition from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement as an Age-Friendly Health System—Committed to Care Excellence. The designation highlights our hospital's leadership in prioritizing the needs of seniors, including in medication, mental health and mobility. Our exercise classes aim to help prevent falls and increase social connectedness. We offer live virtual exercise classes as part of the LEAP research study.

We treat a wide range of geriatric conditions, including preventive care, health and wellness, bone health, fall prevention, functional decline, social isolation, cognitive impairment and dementia, and delirium. At Cedars-Sinai , we value open, ongoing communication with our referring doctors.

When patients receive care from the Geriatrics team, we communicate directly with their primary care doctor regarding their consultation, treatment and progress. Call us or send a message to the Geriatrics team. You can also have us call you back at your convenience. Skip to content. Adult Day Health Care is an outpatient day program that provides health maintenance and rehabilitative services to frail elderly and functionally impaired veterans. These services are delivered by a team of health professionals and support staff that strives to help participants and their caregivers develop the knowledge and skills necessary to manage care in the home.

These centers increase the basic knowledge of aging for health care providers and improve the quality of care through the development of improved models of clinical services.

Each GRECC has an identified one or more foci of research in the basic biomedical, clinical and health services area. Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Centers the GRECCs are designed for the advancement and integration of research, education, and clinical achievements in geriatrics and gerontology into the total VA healthcare system.

All of the GRECCs focus on various aspects in the quality of life and care for the aging veterans and are the forefront of leading-edge research and education. GRECC site. This Program formerly Hospital Based Home Care began in and provides long-term primary medical care to chronically ill veterans in their own homes under the coordinated care of an interdisciplinary treatment team.

This program has led to guidelines for medical education in home care, use of emerging technology in home care and improved care for Veterans with dementia and their families who support them. In , home-based primary care programs were located in VA medical centers. Home-Based Primary Care provides primary health care to homebound to patients that live in the community.

HPBC is designed to serve the chronically ill through the months and years before death, providing primary care, palliative care, rehabilitation, disease management and coordination or care services. Physicians, nurses, pharmacists, physician assistants, social workers, long-term care and managed care providers, health care administrators, and others can update their knowledge and skills through state-of-the-art educational sessions and research presentations.

Our programs provide institutions with a variety of resources to help support the implementation of its specific program model, through access to our tools, resources, training, and technical assistance. The Geriatrics-for-Specialists Initiative The Geriatrics-for-Specialists Initiative GSI has conducted collaborative activities with numerous organizations and leaders in academic medicine, all designed to increase awareness of and knowledge in the care of older adults among surgical and related medical specialists.

Hartford Foundation to provide assistance to GWEP sites through national meetings, networking opportunities, mentoring, a centralized repository of resources for professional and public education, and site visit consultations with geriatrics experts.