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ArticleGerontology & geriatrics education2023

GeriKit: A novel app for comprehensive geriatric assessment.

Ambika V Viswanathan, John A Dodson, Nina L Blachman

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Article in Gerontology & geriatrics education, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 39% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ambika V ViswanathanDepartment of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
John A DodsonNew York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0163-3013
Nina L BlachmanNew York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4560-3417
New York University · USUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

Summer Research Training in Aging for Medical StudentsT35AG050998 · NIA · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI JOSHUA CHODOSH · 2015 to 2026
$820k
NIA NIH HHS T35 AG050998
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Given the growth of the older adult population in the United States, there is a greater need for tools to enable students, trainees, and clinicians to master the comprehensive geriatric assessment. Our goal was to develop a mobile phone application (app) to assist in performing this assessment. We performed a market survey of 45 apps that related to geriatrics and health screening. We evaluated for usability, target audience, and instruments used. Deficiencies included: (1) focusing on a single domain; (2) being time-intensive; and (3) having components behind a paywall. We then designed an app that incorporates instruments that are well-validated, available at no cost, and brief in length. GeriKit includes eight domains: cognition, depression, function, strength, medications, falls, and advance care planning. Each instrument requires fewer than 5 minutes, and once it is completed and scored, the user can access relevant educational materials. GeriKit was launched for Apple users in December 2020, and for Android in August 2021. There have been over 3,400 downloads to date. The GeriKit app makes the comprehensive geriatric assessment accessible to a wide audience, improving the ability to for learners to perform geriatric assessments.

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GeriatricsMobile ApplicationsAgedGeriatric AssessmentHumansMotivationSurveys and QuestionnairesUnited StatesGeriatric assessmentgeriatric educationgeriatric education curriculumgeriatric education/training

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PMID35404774
PMCPMC9550877
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