The Office of Geriatric Medicine is involved in clinical services established especially for older persons.  These services include the following.

Geriatric Evaluation Center at Maple Knoll Village

Our Geriatric Evaluation Center is designed for people 65 years and older who need expert advice on how to manage their health concerns and how to maintain their well being. Our Center is conveniently located in Springdale, a suburb of northwest of Cincinnati. Specialist in geriatric medicine are trained to recognize and understand the unique needs of the older person.

The Geriatric Evaluation Center helps people find solutions, whether it's sorting an older adult’s complex medical problems, providing advice on coping with memory loss or helping a family make  decisions about living arrangements.  Our Center keeps the patient’s personal physician informed of its findings and recommendations.

Office Hours are Monday through Friday, 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. Appointments are available by calling 513-782-2730.

Located at: Maple Knoll Village
11070 Springfield Pike
Cincinnati, OH 45246

The Navigator Program

A Model Program to Teach Physicians How to Address the Health Care Needs of Medically Vulnerable Older Women Living in the Community

Goals of the Proposed Project:

The University of Cincinnati Medical Center’s Office of Geriatric Medicine directs an innovative pilot clinical program, the Navigator Project, which is helping address the needs of medically vulnerable older women in the Greater Cincinnati Area.  In 2006 we received a $195,000 gift from the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation for a two-year project to expand this initiative by developing new medical education programs based on the Navigator Project’s guiding principles.  The proposed project’s goals are:

1. To develop substantial new medical educational programs to teach medical students, residents, and fellows how to more appropriately address the health care and social service needs of their elderly female patients.
2. To rigorously evaluate the educational programs and revise them, if indicated by evaluation results.
3. To disseminate information about the educational programs nationwide, which will result in them being adopted by other medical centers across the country.

Background of the Navigator Project:

The Navigator Project is a demonstration program funded since November 2000 by the Adele Noyes Thomson Fund for Research and Education in Women’s Health. The original vision came from the donor, Alexander Thomson III, who experienced firsthand the difficulties of assisting his elderly mother in securing appropriate services and coordinating her medical care during a serious and ultimately fatal illness.  The Navigator Project’s goal is to identify and reduce barriers to medical and social services care experienced by medically vulnerable elderly women. The Navigator team includes medical, nursing, and social work professionals working closely with the Greater Cincinnati aging services network. 

Proposed New Educational Programs:

The proposed project will educate 130 trainees in three groups:  medical students, medical residents in several specialties, and geriatric medicine and geriatric psychiatry fellows. Among other learning experiences, all trainees will accompany the Navigator team on home visits to clients served by that project.  This will give them first-hand experience in learning about the unique problems elderly women face in obtaining proper health care and social services. In addition, all trainees will attend an orientation session and will be given a list of relevant journal articles to study.  They will also be provided an extensive annotated list of local social service agencies that can assist their elderly patients and their caregivers.

Long-term Care Teaching Practices

Maple Knoll Village (MKV), a non-profit, continuing care retirement community in Springdale, Ohio, located 25 minutes from the College of Medicine is a major teaching site for geriatrics training for UC medical students, residents, and fellows.  Additional geriatric teaching practices are supported through University Family Medicine at Bridgeway Pointe/Drake Center, Heritage Springs in West Chester, Marjorie P. Lee/Dupree homes in Hyde Park, the St. Mary’s Home in Glendale and through Alliance Primary Care at numerous long-term care facilities throughout Cincinnati.