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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST bR0xYfC1. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. In an era of medical care delivery systems'there is an increasing need for the patient's voice to be heard, for it to be invited, listened to, and taken seriously. This challenge is particularly evident in geriatrics education, a domain of ciinical training in which educators and clinicians alike must struggle to overcome adverse attitudes towards the elderly (ageism'). In this paper we introduce a'Council of Elders'as an educational innovation in which we invited community elders to function as our'Senior Faculty'to whom medical residents present their challenging and heartfelt dilemmas in caring for elder patients. In the conversations that ensue, the elders come to function not simply as teachers, but collaborators in a process in which doctors, researchers, and elders together create a community of resources, capable of identifying novel ways to overcome health-related difficulties which might not have been apparent to either group separately. Using the first meeting of the Council as an exemplar, we describe and discuss the special nature of such meetings and also the special preparations required to build a dialogic relationship between participants from very different worlds different generations, different cultures (including the professional culture and the world of lived experience). (...)
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