Partner Program
Engage in Age (engage) is an interdisciplinary initiative housed at Mercer College of Health Professions. Engage will continue its collaboration with Georgia Gear to develop and implement educational resources on age-friendly and dementia-friendly care for health professional students and practitioners to address and mitigate ageism through creating shared vocabulary and using a humanities approach.
The engage program is built on the premise that in order for clinicians to practice and participate in the delivery of age-friendly care, they must be trained in an age-friendly manner. Through this project, engage will develop students who are better prepared to provide value-based care and enhance collaboration between primary care physicians and other healthcare providers to integrate the 4Ms (What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility) into each patient encounter to optimize health outcomes for Georgia's older adults.
In partnership with Georgia Gear, engage will work to transform primary care sites and delivery systems to offer age-friendly and dementia-friendly care for older adults. Additionally, engage will equip faculty and preceptors with the knowledge and skills needed to train the healthcare workforce in providing age-friendly and dementia-friendly care to older adults.
