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Caring for Caregivers Within Age-Friendly Health Systems: An Organizational Case Study of National Scale and Spread Open

Ellen Carbonell, Diane Mariani, Robyn Golden · 2025

The bulk of care for older adults who need assistance but do not require hospitalization or skilled nursing care typically falls to families and friends due to the lack of comprehensive long-term care services for older adults in the Unite…

Expanding access to comprehensive and quality social care within and beyond an urban medical center Open

Bonnie Ewald, Teresa Moro, Alyssa McFadden, Emily Levi–D'Ancona, Robyn Golden · 2025

EXPANDING HOME-BASED PRIMARY CARE FOR MEDICALLY COMPLEX PATIENTS: RUSH@HOME Open

Walter Rosenberg, Nathaniel Powell, Elizabeth Davis, Leticia Santana, Robyn Golden · 2022

Medically complex older adults from underserved communities experience multiple barriers to obtaining necessary health care and services. Often these individuals are largely unable to leave their homes due to a lack of community resources …

EMBRACING DIVERSITY BY FOSTERING STRONG COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS Open

Robyn Golden, Erin Emery-Tiburcio, Rani Snyder · 2022

Age-Friendly Health Systems are essential; however, most health and healing take place outside of the walls of a hospital or physician’s office. Thus, it is imperative that health systems foster strong community connections, in particular …

FACILITATING CAREGIVER HEALTH AND WELLNESS: AGE-FRIENDLY HEALTH SYSTEM CARING FOR CAREGIVERS (AFHS-C4C) Open

Robyn Golden, Diane Mariani, Leslie Pelton, Teresa Moro, Ellen Carbonell · 2022

Family caregivers of older adults are vital partners in health care. The health care system is uniquely positioned to connect with caregivers and help address their own needs. The Age-Friendly Health System Caring for Caregivers (AFHS-C4C)…

Promoting Health Equity by Paying for Social Care Open

Bonnie Ewald, Robyn Golden, Diana J. Mason · 2021

Two major reports from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) in 2019 and 2021 have called for clinicians, health care systems, and society to foster health equity by integrating social care into health care d…

SAFE – Home Opioid Management Education (SAFE-HOME) in older adults: a naloxone awareness program for home health workers Open

Brianna M. McQuade, Mike Koronkowski, Erin Emery-Tiburcio, Robyn Golden, Jennie B. Jarrett · 2021

An educational approach utilizing home health workers as client educators resulted in increased knowledge of opioid risks and naloxone utility amongst older adults.

Rush@Home: Home-Based Primary Care Focused on Underserved Communities and Health Equity Open

Robyn Golden, Alexander Rackman, Elizabeth Davis, Leticia Santana, Walter Rosenberg · 2021

Homebound patients are often medically complex and are among those in greatest need of care and services. This is especially true for those that reside in underserved communities, where they face the added risk stemming from scarce communi…

CATCH-ON Educational Interventions for Providers, Older Adults, and Caregivers Open

Erin Emery-Tiburcio, Michelle Newman, Robyn Golden · 2021

CATCH-ON, the collaborative GWEP led by Rush University Medical Center, is working to create Age-Friendly Communities by assuring that health systems, community-based organizations, and older adults and families are educated about the 4Ms.…

The Rush Caregiver Initiative: A Model for Caregiver Health and Wellness in Age-Friendly Health Systems Open

Robyn Golden, Leslie Pelton, Ellen Carbonell · 2021

The Rush Caregiver Health and Well-Being Initiative (Caregiver Initiative) draws together evidence-based practices into a single framework to improve care for older adults and caregivers. The Caregiver Initiative has two components: system…

CATCH-ON Connect: A Program to Increase Technology Access Among Older Adults During COVID-19 Open

Erin Emery-Tiburcio, Janis Sayer, Robyn Golden, Salvador Castaneda, Michelle Newman · 2021

During the COVID-19 pandemic, technology became an essential tool to maintain connections to social support, health professionals, and services. However, many older adults do not have access to technology or do not feel comfortable using i…

The Caregiver Initiative: A Model for Caregiver Health and Wellness in Age-Friendly Health Systems Open

Ellen Carbonell, Robyn Golden, Leslie Pelton · 2021

Health care systems have historically relied on family caregivers to provide long-term care for older adults, often including medically complex care for which they have no medical training. Yet there are few interventions in place to assis…

Social Isolation and Loneliness: Imperatives for Health Care in a Post-COVID World Open

Eve Escalante, Robyn Golden, Diana J. Mason · 2021

Social Isolation and Loneliness: Imperatives for Health Care in a Post-COVID World Open

Eve Escalante, Robyn Golden, Diana J. Mason · 2020

Diverse Approaches to Assessing What Matters to Older Adults Open

Erin Emery-Tiburcio, Robyn Golden · 2020

Asking older adults What Matters to them and assuring that care plans are aligned with these preferences is the cornerstone of an Age-Friendly Health System (AFHS). Health systems have struggled to identify clear ways to ask this question …

Helping Caregivers to be Ready, Willing, Able, and Healthy Open

Robyn Golden, Vikki Rompala, Ellen Carbonell · 2020

Given extended life expectancy, family caregivers are needed to provide care for older adults at home. Research has documented the deleterious effects of caregiving on mental and physical health for many. The Caregiver Health and Well-Bein…

CATCH-ON Age-Friendly Health System Implementation Across Varied Geographic and System Settings Open

Erin Emery-Tiburcio, Robyn Golden, Michelle Newman · 2020

GWEP program goals include transformation of clinical training environments into integrated geriatrics and primary care systems to become Age-Friendly Health Systems. CATCH-ON, the collaborative GWEP led by Rush University Medical Center, …

Schaalman Senior Voices: Transitioning From “What’s the Matter?” to “What Matters?” Open

Grisel Rodriguez-Morales, Erin Emery-Tiburcio, Robyn Golden, Marc Fenton, Jasmine Chandy · 2020

The 4Ms of an Age-Friendly Health System start with What Matters to the older adult. A unique method for asking that question is through film. Schaalman Senior Voices (SSV) films older adults talking about What Matters to them, and uses th…

INTEGRATING SOCIAL NEEDS CARE INTO THE DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE TO IMPROVE THE NATION’S HEALTH FOR OLDER ADULTS Open

Tamara Cadet, Robyn Golden, Keegan Warren-Clem · 2019

An ad hoc committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine examined the potential for integrating services addressing social needs and the social determinants of health into the delivery of health care to achieve …

Connecting Social, Clinical, and Home Care Services for Persons with Serious Illness in the Community Open

Robyn Golden, Erin Emery-Tiburcio, Sharon Post, Bonnie Ewald, Michelle Newman · 2019

The medical, psychological, cognitive, and social needs of older adults with serious illness are best met by coordinated and team‐based services and support. These services are best provided in a seamless care model anchored by integrated …

Collaborative Care for Depression of Adults and Adolescents: Measuring the Effectiveness of Screening and Treatment Uptake Open

Hale M. Thompson, Walter Faig, Neha Gupta, Rebecca Lahey, Robyn Golden , et al. · 2019

The intervention shows promise in expanding access to care and reducing disparities. Greater access to psychotherapies and innovative treatment modalities, particularly for adolescents, may improve overall treatment uptake.

IDENTIFYING AND TREATING DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS IN PRIMARY CARE SETTINGS Open

Rebecca Lahey, Robyn Golden · 2018

Identifying depression in older adults has long been a challenge for healthcare professionals, due to low national rates of screening for depressive symptoms and a lack of understanding how depressive symptoms may present in older adults. …

INTERACTIVE ONLINE AND CLASSROOM-BASED EDUCATION FOR HEALTH PROVIDERS: THE CATCH-ON MODEL Open

Erin Emery-Tiburcio, Amy Eisenstein, Laurin Mack, Elaine T. Jurkowski, Michelle Newman , et al. · 2018

The healthcare workforce is vastly underprepared to meet the needs of the growing older adult population. In efforts to educate both professional healthcare providers and older adults and families, we have developed free, interactive onlin…

ADDRESSING SYSTEMIC BARRIERS TO INTEGRATED CARE FOR OLDER ADULTS Open

William Rosenberg, Bonnie Ewald, Michelle Newman, Robyn Golden · 2018

Integrating social work and other psychosocial care into healthcare delivery has demonstrated great promise for improving the health and wellbeing of older adults and their families. Despite recent healthcare payment reforms that incentivi…

PROMISING PRACTICES FOR IMPROVING PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE FOR OLDER ADULTS Open

Robyn Golden, Victoria M. Rizzo, Jacob M. Rowe · 2018

In order to support an aging population experiencing increasing rates of co-occurring chronic conditions, social isolation, and functional disabilities, policymakers and healthcare leaders have undertaken efforts to innovate with new integ…

THE IMPACT OF THE AMBULATORY INTEGRATION OF MEDICAL AND SOCIAL (AIMS) MODEL ON DEPRESSION AND HEALTH RISK Open

Victoria M. Rizzo, Wei Han, Suk-Young Kang, Jacob M. Rowe, Rebekah Kukowski , et al. · 2018

This study examines the impact of the AIMS model, delivered by master’s level social workers, on depressive symptoms and health risks, six months post-intervention. The sample included 170 patients, aged 50+ with three or more chronic illn…

BRIGHTEN Heart intervention for depression in minority older adults: Randomized controlled trial. Open

Erin Emery-Tiburcio, Steven K. Rothschild, Elizabeth Avery, Yamin Wang, Laurin Mack , et al. · 2018

The BRIGHTEN Heart intervention may be effective in reducing depression for urban minority older adults. Further research on team care interventions and screening for PTSD symptoms in primary care is warranted. (PsycINFO Database Record (c…

COMING OF AGE: SOCIAL DETERMINANTS MATTER Open

Robyn Golden · 2018

In an era driven by cost containment, demographic imperative, and uncertainty about public financing, social determinants of health have become the “new-old” focus of the field of aging. This increasing recognition of psychosocial and envi…

Cognitive impairment in Parkinson’s disease: a report from a multidisciplinary symposium on unmet needs and future directions to maintain cognitive health Open

Jennifer G. Goldman, Beth A. Vernaleo, Richard Camicioli, Nabila Dahodwala, Roseanne D. Dobkin , et al. · 2018

THE PATIENT-CENTERED MEDICAL HOME FOR THE OLDER ADULT: WHAT NEEDS TO BE DIFFERENT? Open

Robert Schreiber, Amy Bowman, Robyn Golden, David A. Dorr · 2017

The purpose of the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) in the United States is to position the primary care system to provide better health care, better health, and lower cost per capita coupled with high-quality, accessible, and efficien…

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