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This online caregiver tip sheet discusses caregiving and respite care when caring for a person with a stroke.
Patient education fact sheet on causes of fall and what to do when there is a fall at home
This HRSA training curriculum on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias contains 16 core modules - each with a PowerPoint presentation including detailed notes and a reference list - to assist in teaching, and other presentations. The curriculum...
Research protocol from AHRQ re: prevention, diagnosis, and management of opioids, opioid misuse, and opioid use disorder in older adults; could be useful for developing educational materials; references (8/16/2019)
Sponsored by the Alzheimer's Association, this website contains 12 caregiver training resources that address warning signs of Alzheimer's disease, understanding dementia types, stages and risk factors, dementia conversations about driving, doctor...
This article provides an executive summary of a report from the AGS Expert Panel on guiding principles for care of older adults with multimorbidity.
This article written by an AGS Expert Panel summarizes the literature on multimorbidity in older adults and provides guiding principles for care.
This toolkit is a resource for understanding the AGS Guiding Principles for the Care of Older Adults with Multimorbidity. It contains several articles from the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society that outline guiding principles, a stepwise...
This article provides a 2019 update to the American Geriatrics Society Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults based upon a systematic review of new evidence.
A website of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing that provides videos, assessment tools, articles, and podcasts related to the Try This: Series on 35 topics.
The Age-Friendly Care and Education Collection is part of
Minnesota Northstar GWEP,
supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program of
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Award No. U1QHP33076, the University of Minnesota Office of Academic
Clinical Affairs, and the Otto Bremer Trust.