Primary Care for Older Adults

Doctor Michael Wasserman presently serves as the Chief Medical Officer for Rockport Healthcare Services.  Previously, he served as Executive Director, Care Continuum, for Health Services Advisory Group, the QIN-QIO for California. In 2001 he co-founded Senior Care of Colorado, before selling it to IPC in 2010.  He is the author of “The Business of Geriatrics.” He previously was President and Chief Medical Officer for GeriMed of America, a Geriatric Medical Management Company where he helped to develop GeriMed’s Clinical Glidepaths in conjunction with Drs. Flaherty and Morley.Dr. Wasserman completed an Internal Medicine residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and a Geriatric Medicine Fellowship at UCLA.  He opened Kaiser-Permanente's first outpatient Geriatric Consult Clinic.  Dr. Wasserman was a co-founder and owner of Common Sense Medical Management (CSM2), a case management company that helped manage high risk beneficiaries of Cover Colorado.  He was formerly a Public Commissioner for the Continuing Care Accreditation Commission.  Dr. Wasserman serves on the board of directors of Wish of a Lifetime Foundation, the American Geriatrics Society’s Health in Aging Foundation, and the California Association of Long Term Care Medicine.Dr. Riopelle began his career as an emergency physician and was the first full time medical director for Qual-Med. Through the years he became involved in the delivery of care to seniors from the primary care perspective during his years as the founder and CEO of GeriMed of America. He then furthered his interest and passion for senior care becoming involved in population health management in the full risk medicare environment. He currently provides consulting services focusing on population health and physician transformation.  He previously served as Chairman of the Forum on Entrepreneurship of the American College of Physician Executives.  

1. Introduction: Primary Care in the United States Today.- 2: Geriatric Consultative models in primary care.- 3. GRACE: Team Care model.- 4. Introduction to Population Health.- 5. Patient Centered Medical Homes (PCMH) and the care of older adults.- 6. Geriatric Population Management within an ACO/managed care setting.- 7.Primary Care Clinic Model.- 8. The keys to successful primary care operations.- 9. Primary Care across the Care Continuum.- 10. Evercare/Optum in primary nursing home care.- 11. Primary care in the home: the Independence at Home Demonstration.- 12. Nurse Practitioners and the care of older adults.- 13. The Role of Pharmacists in the care of older adults.- 14. Financial models for effective primary care.- 15. Incentivizing primary care physicians: Opportunities and Challenges.- 16.The future of primary care for older adults.