Talking With Your Older Patient: A Clinician's Handbook by National Institute of Aging - HTML preview

Macy Initiative in Health Communication

Division of Primary Care

NYU School of Medicine

550 First Avenue

Old Bellevue, Room D401

New York, NY 10016

1-212-263-3071

http://macyinitiative.med.nyu.edu

This initiative was a collaborative effort of three medical schools to identify and defi ne critical communication skills needed by physicians. It developed competency-based curricula for medical students.

New England Research Institutes (NERI)

9 Galen Street

Watertown, MA 02472

1-617-923-7747

www.neriscience.com

NERI has designed a CME-accredited CD-ROM, Communicating With Older Adults, educating physicians on communication strategies to practice with older patients.