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All social workers, regardless of practice settings, will inevitably work with clients facing acute or long-term situations involving life-limiting illness, dying, death, grief, and bereavement.
Using their expertise in working with...
Set of resources/articles for community members on end of life and support at end of life.
Caring for someone who is dying can be hard. These articles provide information about palliative care, hospice care, decision-making at the end of life...
This presentation given by Dr. Page Ulrey is part of the 2021 Spring NW Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Center's Geriatric Healthcare Lecture Series. By the end of this lecture, learners should be able to: 1) identify how elder abuse is defined...
Recognizing that the unique needs of senior victims of sexual violence are not being met, the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape (PCAR) and the Pennsylvania Department of Aging partnered to administer a grant from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime...
In this GeriPal podcast (45:18 minutes) Kate Courtright, a critical care and palliative care physician-researcher who conducts trials of palliative care, is interviewed. Kate discusses how despite how far we've come in palliative care research, we...
Age-related hearing loss affects about 2/3rd of adults over age 70 years and that self-reported hearing loss increases during the last years of life. Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and...
In this GeriPal podcast (55:57 minutes) guests Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold discuss advance care planning.
Based on an earlier study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital, in this GeriPal podcast (46:44 minutes), Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert discuss their...
This website provides information to help people living with dementia to manage continence at home. It was developed by researchers at the University of Southampton and King’s College London, who worked with people affected by dementia. Funding has...
In this GeriPal podcast (49:17 minutes), Juliet Jacobsen and Rachelle Bernacki discuss the ongoing debate in academic circles about the value Advance Care Planning (ACP), how to think about definitions of ACP vs serious illness communication, what...
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.