The Essential Components of Quality Geriatric Care

The training of clinicians in geriatrics-gerontology care is not keeping up with demand for these services. Workforce training goals for an aging population are recruitment and training of geriatrics-gerontology specialists to lead care programs, systems, and education programs; and ensuring all health profession students and providers have the skills to provide older adults with evidencebased, individualized, and coordinated team-based care that prioritizes patients' goals, function, and quality of life. Without an immediate and significant commitment to address these goals, many older adults will receive inadequate care. By extension, their children will be burdened with extraordinarily challenging responsibilities.