Joan Ilardo, PhD, LMSW is the Director of Research Initiatives for the Michigan State University (MSU) College of Human Medicine and Senior Associate Chair of the Department of Family Medicine where she is on the faculty of the Division of Geriatrics. She serves on the Patient Access committee for the MSU Clinical practice. She facilitates faculty collaborations in health services research and leads several research projects on patient-provider partnerships and coordinating medical practice and community-based supports and services. Prior to joining the College of Human Medicine in 2009, Dr. Ilardo directed the MSU School of Social Work’s MSW program and taught graduate courses in Research Methods and Administrative Practice Skills. She was a Senior Consultant at Health Management Associates for 12 years. She served as the Director of Patient Information at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. Dr. Ilardo is a member of the steering committee of the Michigan Dementia Coalition and chairs its Healthcare System and Provider Education Committee. She served six years on the 15-member Michigan Commission on Services to the Aging. Dr. Ilardo earned a Bachelor’s in Finance from the University of Illinois, a Master’s and PhD in Social Work from Michigan State University.
Patient-Provider Partnerships: Four Modules for Enhancing Clinical Practice with Older Adults
Presenter: Joan Ilardo, PhD, MSU CHM
These presentations were developed as part of the Partners in Aging Strategies and Training Project (PAST) supported by the Michigan Health Endowment Fund.
Using the modules – If you prefer to read the narrative rather than listening to it, on the upper LEFT side of the screen click on Notes and then mute your speaker. On the upper RIGHT side click on Resources for the documents that are discussed during the presentation. Download them and edit to fit your practice’s needs.
- When Doctor-Patient Interactions Become Patient-Provider Partnerships
During this module you will discover what patients learn in self-management education and ways you can integrate what they learn into their care plans. You will learn about ways to partner with your local evidence-based self-management programs.
- Health Literacy: Improving Patient-Provider Communication
During this module you will learn more about health literacy and its impact on your patients’ health outcomes. You will learn strategies to help you address your patients’ low health literacy and ways to help your patients improve their health literacy skills.
- Mobility Concerns, Falls and Prevention: Decreasing Falls by Increasing Balance and Strength
During this module you will see the prevalence and consequences of falls. You will see techniques on how to identify, evaluate, and provide assistance to older adults who are at risk of falling or who have already had a fall as well as strategies for preventing falls.
- Improving Outcomes Using Patient Diabetes Self-Management Strategies
During this module you will learn more about diabetes from a population health perspective, how diabetes affects the person who has the condition as well as those around him or her, several effective evidence-based programs that support people living with diabetes, and how you can put this all together to enhance your patients’ outcomes through effective patient-provider shared-decision making processes.
