This article highlights the growing importance of geriatric care within within the primary care setting as the U.S. population ages.  The authors argue that primary care physicians must be educated on geriatric principles and suggest numerous methods, including " providing financial support for medical schools and residency programs that adopt appropriate educational innovations; tailoring Medicare’s educational subsidy to reform graduate medical education; and invoking state requirements that physicians obtain geriatric continuing education credits to maintain their licensure or to practice as Medicaid providers or medical directors of nursing homes."

Boult, C., Counsell, S. R., Peipzig, R. M. et al. (2010).  The urgency of preparing primary care physicians to care for older people with chronic illnesses. Health Affairs, 29(5): 811-818. DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2010.0095 http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/29/5/811 

Authors: Chad Boult, Steven R. Counsell, Rosanne M. Leipzig, and Robert A. Berenson.