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This webinar (59:18 minutes) given by Ian Choe, MD, explains how telemedicine can benefit all three major stakeholders, i.e., providers, patients, and communities in the modern health care system. (Presentation begins at 7:10 minutes).
This toolkit developed by the Utah Geriatric Education Consortium provides helpful guidance, checklists, resources and best practices to optimize and support telehealth and other virtual services in the long-term services and supports (LTSS) settings...
This booklet by the National Institute of Aging discusses how older adults can get a good night's sleep. Topics include: 1) what happens during sleep; 2) the importance of sleep; 3) how aging changes your sleep; 4) ways to improve your sleep; and 5)...
This lecture (1:14:47 minutes) by Dr. Amy Thomas, Research Fellow at VA Puget Sound Health Care System, is part of the Northwest Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Center's 2021 Winter Lecture Series. Dr. Thomas discusses a rational approach to...
This lecture by Dr. Zachary Marcum, Assistant Professor at UW School of Pharmacy, is part of the Northwest Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Center's 2022 Spring Lecture series and iscusses prescribing in Alzheimer's Disease as well as related...
This article from the Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging provides concensus guidelines from the International Conference on Frailty and Sarcopenia (ICFSR) on practical frailty screening and management strategies for use in primary care settings...
This report from the Milken Institute Alliance to Improve Dementia Care centers around two overarching themes: (1) strengthening the infrastructure among health care, long-term, and community-based organizations to achieve greater health equity for...
The electronic Rapid Fitness Assessment (eRFA) is a questionnaire developed at Memorial Sloan Kettering and used by doctors on the Geriatrics Service to gauge and understand an older patient’s level of fitness. Studies have shown that the fitness...
2023 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures is a statistical resource for U.S. data related to Alzheimer’s disease, the most common cause of dementia. Background and context for interpretation of the data are contained in the overview. Additional...
This lecture (29:19 minutes) sponsored by the South Florida Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program at Nova Southeastern University is given by Dayne DuVall, a nationally-certified Alzheimer's educator, who describes Alzheimer's disease and dementia...
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.