Primary Care Trainees Learn about Aging in Place via an Academic-Area Agency on Aging Partnership

A community-academic partnership can be leveraged to successfully design, implement, and sustain a curriculum that teaches primary care trainees how to effectively help older adults age in place. Seventy-seven trainees completed the practicum including family medicine residents, advanced practice nursing students, and geriatric medicine fellows. Trainees described feeling empowered to connect their patients to AAA resources. Aging in place can be supported via partnerships across clinical and community organization silos, and these same partnerships can be leveraged to support curricula for future primary care providers.