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2018-01-11
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Promoting Physician/Attorney Collaboration on Behalf of Older Individuals: The Contribution of Medical School Regional Campuses
Gregory Turner, Ed.D., M.B.A., M.P.H.
Florida State University College of Medicine
Marshall B. Kapp
Florida State University College of Medicine and College of Law
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24926/jrmc.v1i1.1000
Keywords: interprofessional collaboration, older persons, attorneys, faculty development, continuing medical education
Abstract
There are many situations in which an older person needs the services of both an attorney and a physician and communication and collaboration between members of those two professions would be highly advantageous to the older patient/client’s well-being. Unfortunately, the record of physician/attorney interprofessional collaboration on behalf of the shared older patient/client in such circumstances too often is deficient and needs to be improved. This article reports on a project designed to maximize the synergistic value of physicians as patient advocates and attorneys as problem solvers when the two professions work together. The project consisted of several components, culminating in the availability of a continuing education toolkit for these two helping professions that identifies and aims to overcome an array of potential impediments inhibiting effective physician/attorney collaboration in the aging arena. One project component featured here focuses on the contribution of the Florida State University College of Medicine’s Regional Campuses in carrying out the described project.
Financial support: This project was supported by Retirement Research Foundation Grant #2015-121 to the Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc.
Human Subjects: This project was approved and reapproved by the Florida State University Human Subjects Committee, HSC No. 2017.20466.
