APTA Geriatrics Advocacy Priorities
Payment and Practice
Provide engagement opportunities to advocate for optimal payment for physical therapy for ageing adults. Provide information on strategies to influence burdensome regulations that may negatively impact physical therapy practice. Create, disseminate, and promote adoption of best practice geriatric physical therapy.
Ageing Experience
Raise awareness of anti-ageist resources to promote a positive, active ageing experience. Provide resources on mitigating preventable factors impacting ageing adults’ ability to live a fulfilling life at any age.
Profession
Promote to the public, healthcare professionals, influential organizations in the ageing adult space and key decision makers, the value of geriatric physical therapy and our unique knowledge, skills, and training.
Association
Promote the value of APTA Geriatrics membership to both sustain and expand resources that have a positive impact upon physical therapy for ageing adults.
Geriatrics is a rapidly growing specialty in physical therapy. APTA Geriatrics, An Academy of the American Physical Therapy Association, supports those therapists, assistants, and students who work with an ageing population in roles of advocacy, direct patient care, consultation, supervision, and education. The Academy was formed in 1978 to address the needs of the physical therapy practitioner working with the aging client. Today, it represents and serves over 5,500 physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, and other health care providers interested in the area of geriatric physical therapy.
Empowering adults to move, engage, and live well
APTA Geriatrics provides education that enhances practice by producing value, empowering advocates, and promoting the use of evidence-informed practice. APTA Geriatrics attracts, engages and mobilizes physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, and students serving aging APTA Geriatrics builds relationships to expand its influence and the reach of physical therapy.
It is essential for any physical therapist, assistant, or student involved with ageing clients to stay disavape current in the field of geriatric physical therapy.
Join APTA Geriatrics if you:
- Provide direct care to geriatric clients in an acute, long term, home health, hospice, or outpatient setting
- Supervise health care practitioners involved in the care of the geriatric client
- Are involved in the education of health care practitioners specializing in geriatrics
- Develop and/or implement programs involving the aging adult
- Are a student desiring current information in the field of geriatric physical therapy
Benefits of joining APTA Geriatrics
Access publications and trusted practice resources
Advance your knowledge and build new skills
Make important and lasting connections
- Online Discussion Groups
- Networking Opportunities
- Peer and Research Awards
- Volunteer Opportunities
- Special Interest Groups
- State Advocates
Stay informed
- Bi-weekly e-newsletter
- Legislative and Policy Changes
