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Abstract
The purpose of this study is to operationally define the more qualitative aspects of geriatric interdisciplinary team training, based on the use of concept mapping. Previous literature provides little information with which to foster understanding of a geriatric interdisciplinary team, because of the different ways that the construct is described and the different ways in which central questions could be posed. Participants of the Geriatric Interdisciplinary Team Training (GITT) program, funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation (n = 114), took part in a modified concept mapping exercise. From multidimensional scaling and cluster and factor analyses of the data, a definition of what constitutes geriatric interdisciplinary teams was constructed. Implications of the data suggest that the view of the functions of geriatric interdisciplinary teams is fairly uniform across specialty subgroups.
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