Improving Quality of Life for Seniors

The Rhonda Eldridge Center for Healthy Aging performs research projects focused on improving the lives of our senior population. We strive to positively influence, develop evidence-based best practices and achieve better quality of life for our senior community.

Research focused on improving the lives of the senior population.

Our Mission

The Rhonda Eldridge Center for Healthy Aging aims to positively influence the senior care community by developing easy to implement, evidence-based best practices. With these scientifically proven methods, we believe our seniors will achieve better outcomes. With better outcomes comes a better quality of life. When a better quality of life is achieved, we believe the entire community benefits.

Current Research

Criteria for Optimized Senior Medication Outcomes (COSMO)

COSMO is a comprehensive drug formulary along with healthy living protocols, designed specifically for seniors. It takes the effects of aging and comorbidities into serious consideration.

Drugs and best practices are evaluated by a committee of local experts. This committee consists of physicians, nurse practitioners and pharmacists. Clinical expertise and input is also sought from many other local physicians who are not committee members. The formulary, pre-service authorization parameters, and related procedures are updated as needed when new information becomes available. Click here to learn more about COSMO.

Indiana Healthy Skin Initiative

Primary Objective: Establish and maintain standardization in geriatric skin management, with an emphasis on promotion of healthy skin, and mitigating negative outcomes, such as pressure wounds.

Promote healthy skin
Earliest detection possible of skin integrity issues
Evidence-based best practices in treatment of pressure wounds
Sustain best practices in all areas indefinitely

Patient Outcomes Program

Tracking successful completion of therapy and complications for the long term care service line for AccessRN.

For more information

Visit the Rhonda Eldridge Center for Healthy Aging website. Click here to visit agingbetter.org.

Learn more at agingbetter.org

The GrandView Blog

Preventing Senior Skin Issues in Winter

by GV Team | Jan 13, 2022 | Patient Safety, Resources, Senior Health

Blog by www.agingcare.com Contrary to the popular jingle, Jack Frost doesn’t just nip—he often bites. To make matters worse, he doesn’t usually stop at your nose. Harsh winter weather can be particularly damaging to sensitive older skin. Freezing temperatures and cold...

CVS Health study shows strong protective value of COVID-19 vaccines

by GV Team | Jan 6, 2022 | Coronavirus, Patient Safety, Resources, Senior Health, Vaccinations

Blog by www.cvshealth.com A CVS Health study just published in JAMA Network Open shows that COVID-19 two-dose vaccines offer strong protection for vaccinated people. Compared with vaccinated persons, unvaccinated individuals were up to four times more likely to be...

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Deficiency free survey from the Indiana State Board of Pharmacy

In the spring of 2017, the GrandView Pharmacy locations in Brownsburg, IN and Fort Wayne, IN were awarded a deficiency free survey from the Indiana State Board of Pharmacy. We’re extremely proud of our team members who worked hard to accomplish this goal. Read more about it here.