What Is GITT?
GITT is a national initiative to train health care professionals to work on interdisciplinary teams to care for older adults. Patients with multiple conditions rely on health care professionals from a variety of disciplines. This is often the case with older adults. Studies show that complex patients manage better when their doctors, nurses, gerontologists, pharmacists--every health professional involved in their care (including the patient!)--work together as a team to develop a smart plan of care.
In May 1995, The John A. Hartford Foundation, Inc. of New York created this innovative program. Recognizing that health trainees receive little, if any, explicit instruction on team work, the Foundation's Trustees sought to develop prototypes of geriatric team training that could be tested and then disseminated throughout the country. The GITT program continues the Foundation’s tradition of reshaping health professionals’ training to meet the demographic imperatives of the 21st Century.
Project Investigator - Terry Fulmer
Project Coordinator - Marguarette Bolton
GITT Resource Center
New York University
College of Nursing
246 Greene Street
New York, NY 10003-6677
(212) 998-5562
Click here for the Geriatric Interdisciplinary Team Training Program (GITT) Home Page 
