hero image
Dr. Robert E. Roush - International Federation on Ageing. Houston, TX, UNITED STATES

Dr. Robert E. Roush

Professor and Director | Texas Consortium for Geriatrics Education and Care

Houston, TX, UNITED STATES

Dr. Roush trains healthcare professionals about the role of age-related changes in making executive decisions about finances.

Media

Publications:

Documents:

Photos:

Videos:

Dr. Robert E. Roush Youtube

Audio/Podcasts:

Social

Biography

In 1971, Robert E. Roush was recruited to Baylor College of Medicine as the founding director of the Center for Allied Health Professions. Since 1985, he has directed the Texas Consortium Geriatrics Education Center, a statewide organization that has trained over 75,000 Texas health professionals in geriatrics.

As Professor, Section of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Dr. Roush teaches medical students, residents, and geriatrics fellows. He also conducts continuing education programs for the Section of Geriatrics and edits the Baylor’s Huffington Center on Aging’s web pages. Dr. Roush has written over 500 peer-reviewed publications, invited presentations given at national and international meetings and has funded grant applications totaling over $21,000,000.

As president of the National Association of Geriatrics Education Centers from 1997-2000, Dr. Roush testified before the U.S. Senate and regularly educated our public officials on the need for additional training in geriatrics for all health care professionals. From 2000 to 2002, he served as the 45th President of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity. In 2002, he was appointed co-chair of NAGEC’s Bioterrorism and Emergency Preparedness Committee, a position that led to his work with the Canadian Division of Aging and Seniors on the International Geriatric Emergency Preparedness and Response Work Group. He is a past chair of the Humanities and Arts Committee of the Gerontological Society of America. And at the 2011 GSA meeting, he was elected again to lead NAGEC and The National Association for Geriatric Education. He presently serves on the board of Holly Hall Retirement Center in Houston.

Now in his 45th year at Baylor, his principal work, in conjunction with the Investor Protection Trust since 2009, has been in the area of training health care professionals about the role of age-related changes in making executive decisions about one’s finances and how mild cognitive impairment makes some elders highly vulnerable to financial fraud and exploitation.

Areas of Expertise (11)

Education and Training

Active Ageing

Lifelong Learning

Ageing in Place

Frailty

Public Policy

Gerontology

Public Health and Ageing

Geriatrics

Medical Education

Elder Financial Abuse

Education (3)

University Of Texas: M.P.H., Public Health 1979

University Of Houston: Ed.D., Education 1969

Sam Houston State University: M.Ed., Education 1966

Affiliations (2)

  • National Association of Geriatrics Education
  • Gerontological Society of America

Media Appearances (2)

Financial Elder Abuse a Growing--But Preventable--Problem

New American Media  online

2014-12-04

Baylor Professor Robert E. Roush stressed the urgency of recognizing financial exploitation, which he said can leave seniors impoverished, unable to pay for needed health care or even food ...

Media Appearance Image

view more

When Abuse of Older Patients Is Financial

New York Times  

2011-03-02

Mental impairment makes people more likely to make financial errors and more willing to gamble with their money, said Dr. Robert E. Roush, director of the Texas Consortium Geriatric Education Center at the Baylor College of Medicine ...

Media Appearance Image

view more

Featured Articles (5)

Screening Older Patients for Risk Factors Associated with Financial Exploitation


Aging and Money

2014 In this chapter, the authors present an overview of the medical literature on risk factors associated with increasing an elder’s vulnerability to being financially exploited. They also describe a national continuing medical education program to raise clinicians’ awareness of the issue and what healthcare professionals can do to help prevent the adverse consequences of the loss of their patients’ wherewithal to have a good old age.

view more


Outcomes of Academic-Based Geriatric Emergency Preparedness and Response (GEPR) Training for Medicine, Health, and Behavioral Professions


Disaster Preparedness for Seniors

2014 The progression of evaluation approaches shifting from counting training activities to measuring outcomes from evidence-based training is documented for six U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration-funded Geriatric Education Centers that have collaborated on geriatric emergency preparedness and response (GEPR) training and evaluation initiatives.

view more


The Evolution of Academic-Based Geriatric Emergency Preparedness and Response (GEPR) Training for Medicine, Health, and Behavioral Sciences


Disaster Preparedness for Seniors

2014 This chapter provides a historical perspective of the evolution of policy, funding, training, and resources to address the age-appropriate needs of older persons and the healthcare workforce that serves them in planning, response, and recovery from disasters.

view more


Exemplars of Geriatric Education Centers in Geriatric Psychiatry Programming on Mental Health Issues in Later Life


The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

2013 48 U.S.Geriatric Educ.Centers (GECs) train faculty, students & community providers to render age-appropriate care. 3 GEC directors present examples of programs on late life mental health issues at Baylor,Stanford & Wyoming.

view more


An Educational Program to Assist Clinicians in Identifying Elder Investment Fraud and Financial Exploitation


Gerontology & Geriatrics Education

2012 Due to age-related factors and illnesses, older adults may become vulnerable to elder investment fraud and financial exploitation (EIFFE). The authors describe the development and preliminary evaluation of an educational program to raise awareness and assist clinicians in identifying older adults at risk.

view more


 Your profile is not published.

Contact