Background The key to ensuring quality care for older adults is a nursing workforce that
collaborates across professions and provider levels (Wright MC, Phillips-Bute, BG, Petrusa …

ABSTRACT For a nationwide Geriatric Interdisciplinary Team Training (GITT) program
evaluation of 8 sites and 26 teams, team evaluators developed a quantitative and qualitative …

As part of the Geriatric Interdisciplinary Team Training (GITT) Program funded by the John A.
Hartford Foundation, the authors of this article worked to create an instrument, the Trainee …

Interprofessional collaborative education and practice has become a cornerstone of optimal
person-centered management in the current complex health care climate. This is especially …

Interest in teamwork has fluctuated over the last several decades, with recent renewed
interest. As social workers become more involved in working with older people in the coming …

Interdisciplinary teams are important in providing care for older patients, but interdisciplinary
teamwork is rarely a teaching focus, and little is known about trainees' attitudes towards it …

Interdisciplinary team training (IDT) is an important component of ensuring quality geriatric
care delivery, which can be complex and time intensive, requiring coordination of many …

Geriatric interdisciplinary team training (GITT) is an initiative funded by the John A. Hartford
Foundation since 1995. Building from the substantial knowledge gained from the Veteran's …

The development of effective interprofessional teams is important to the management of the
complex health care needs of the elderly. Although students are expected to function within …

Findings from an exploratory factor analysis on the 21 item'attitudes towards health care
teams'(Heinemann et al., 1999) are reported. Using data collected as part of an innovative …