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Peri Rosenfeld, PhD, Division of Health Policy/Center for Aging Policy, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10029-5202, 212-419-3536, prosenfeld@nyam.org, Elizabeth Taylor, Library, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10029-5202, and The EBP Team, Social Work Leadership Institute, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10029-5202.

Older adults utilize greater proportions of healthcare and social services than younger people and coordination of these services is increasingly complex as federal, state and local programs respond to demographic and economic realities. Effectively addressing the needs and coordinating services for older adults requires skills that span across organizational, political and community domains. To meet the needs of providers, the New York Academy of Medicine's Center for Aging Policy has developed an electronic, searchable clearinghouse of evidence-based care coordination practices for users to identify programs and practices that have “evidence-based”, measurable clinical, fiscal or other outcomes. This paper will describe the method used to develop the evidence-based clearinghouse on care coordination, which included (1) extensive literature searches of electronic bibliographic databases such as MEDLINE and Social Work Abstracts, (2) examination and evaluation of models of evidence-based criteria in nursing, medicine and public health, (3) development of “reviewer assessment template” to evaluate the evidence in each article (4) evaluation of each article by external experts using the template and (5) creation of a user-friendly searchable database, available through the NYAM website. Though social workers and other human service providers are considered the target audiences for this clearinghouse, the Center for Aging Policy plans to mine these data to advance state-level policy recommendations to advance care coordination for the elderly.

Learning Objectives: After this presentation, the participant will be able to

• Describe the process used to create an electronic clearinghouse of evidence-based care coordination practices for older adults
• Understand the policy implications of promoting evidence-based care coordination practices for the elderly.
• Compare levels of evidence from the perspectives of nursing, medicine and social work.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No

Recorded presentation