• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Geriatrics

Geriatrics

Ethnogeriatrics

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Home
  • Culture Med
    • Ethnogeriatrics Overview
      • Introduction
      • Patterns of Health Risk
      • Fund of Knowledge
      • Assessment
      • Delivery of Care
    • Glossary
    • Interview Strategies
  • Ethno Med
    • Background
    • African American
    • Alaska Native
    • American Indian
    • Asian Indian American
    • Chinese American
    • Filipino American
    • Hawaiian and Pacific Islander
    • Hispanic / Latino American
    • Hmong American
    • Japanese American
    • Korean American
    • Pakistani American
    • Vietnamese American
  • Medical Interpreters
    • Microlectures
    • Partnering with medical interpreter
  • Training
  • Media Coverage
  • About Us
    • Overview
    • SAGE Certificate Program
    • iSAGE Team
    • Contact iSAGE
    • Aging Adult Services at Stanford
    • System Requirements

Standardized Instruments

Use of Standardized Assessment Instruments:
PCC Comprehensive Elder Exam

Additional resources

  • » PCC Comprehensive Elder Exam In-Depth
  • » Issues in Using Standardized Instruments

The PCC Comprehensive Elder Exam provides a guide to comprehensive geriatric assessment for the individual provider.  The goal of the form is to allow the provider to approximate the interdisciplinary team evaluation.  In doing so it should make comprehensive geriatric assessment accessible to all older adults.

Experience with the PCC Comprehensive Elder Exam in Zuni indicates that the complete assessment with targeted physical exam can be done in about 45 minutes.  With a well older adult, the exam can be completed in 30 minutes; with a very sick or frail older adult, the exam will take longer.  Prescreening the chart and noting the dates of completion of the health care maintenance items between the bold lines on the right border improves efficiency.  The Comprehensive Elder Exam can also be used by Community Health Nurses, Community Health Aides and Community Health Representatives as part of a community-based assessment.

The PCC Comprehensive Elder Exam guides the practitioner through a high quality geriatric assessment and makes this process available to all older adults.

Before using these tools with Alaska Native older adults, evaluate for:

  • Adequacy and appropriateness of the English version
  • The patient’s educational level
  • The older adult’s fluency with the language
  • The population norm used to standardize the tool
  • The appropriateness of the format (e.g., how questions are formulated— intrusive vs. non-intrusive)
    Pages:
  • <
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • >

Primary Sidebar

Culturemed Image

Alaska Native

  • Description
  • Learning Objectives
  • Updated Summary
  • Introduction and Overview
    • Terminology
    • Geography
    • Demographics
    • Native Cultures
      • Athabascan
      • Yup’ik and Cup’ik
      • Inupiaq
      • Aleut and Alutiiq
      • Southeastern Tribes
    • Historical Background
      • Historical Trauma
      • Decade Value Development
      • Exxon-Valdez Oil Spill
      • Land Claims
  • Patterns of Health Risk
    • Causes of Death
      • Cancer
      • Diabetes
      • Trauma-Falls
      • Suicide
      • Elder Abuse

Culturally Appropriate Care

  • Fund of Knowledge
    • Cohort Analysis
      • Cohort Experiences
    • Cultural Values
      • Health Care Impact
    • Communication Patterns
      • Presentation of Self
      • Distribution of Talk
      • Contents of Talk
    • Traditional Healing
    • Important Cultural Issues
  • Assesment
    • Respect and Rapport
    • Communication
    • Standardized Instruments
    • Client Background
    • Clinical Assesment
      • Health History
      • Physical Examination
      • Cognitive and Affective Status
      • Functional Status
      • Home and Family
      • Community and Neighborhood
      • End of Life Preferences
    • Eliciting Perspectives
  • Cancer Care

Access & Utilization

  • Patterns of and Barriers to Utilization
  • Models of Service
  • Health Care Policy
  • Health Promotion Strategies
    • Alcohol and Substance Abuse
    • Issues in Treatment
    • Blending Biomedicine and Tradition
    • Long Term Care
    • Adult Day Programs

Learning Resources

  • Instructional Strategies
    • Case Study 1
    • Case Study 2
  • List of References
  • Searchable Reference Database
  • Links
  • Glossary
  • Interview Strategies
© 2019 Stanford Medicine
Privacy Policy • Terms of Use