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A new book from Sigma Marketplace, Practice & Leadership in Nursing Homes, is an excellent companion resource for The Teaching Nursing Home series. This book challenges educators and students to look beyond incorrect perceptions and negative attitudes to see a vibrant, growing healthcare sector ripe for nurses to make an impact and build rewarding careers. Long-term care settings are highly regulated environments where the emphasis historically has been on compliance.

Medical Aid in Dying: A Guide for Patients and Their Supporters is a pdf guide from The American Clinicians Academy on Medical Aid in Dying for patients and their supporters. It originated from the questions, interests, and needs of dying patients, their families, their loved ones, and the many others who support them. Its goal is to demystify and facilitate the process of medical aid in dying. (This resource is also available for purchase in book form).

The Academy on Medical Aid in Dying also provides:

Geriatric Medicine and Healthy Aging supports the idea that living a long and healthy life is considered the foremost challenge of societies worldwide. Promoting healthy aging strategies, which involves enhancing physical, mental, and social well-being in older adults, is discussed throughout the book, considering different approaches. Among a range of practical strategies for promoting healthy aging, physical activity is considered a key recommendation for developing sustainable policies and action programs at the community level.

The Assisted Living Nursing Review Syllabus (ALNS) is the latest publication from the American Geriatrics Society (AGS). Designed specifically for staff working in assisted living settings, it provides essential guidance on leadership, management, and clinical care.

Source: American Geriatrics Society, 2024
https://www.americangeriatrics.org/

The question of whether and under what circumstances terminally ill patients should be able to access life-ending medications with the aid of a physician is receiving increasing attention as a matter of public opinion and of public policy. Ethicists, clinicians, patients, and their families debate whether physician-assisted death ought to be a legal option for patients.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that approximately 40 million people in the United States suffer from a serious illness that limits their daily activities. These illnesses include heart and lung disease, cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. However, significant disparities exist across different communities in the quality and access to care for these illnesses. Factors such as race, ethnicity, gender, geography, socioeconomic status, or insurance status exacerbate these complex disparities.

A note from Mental Health Technology: 

"We developed this guide with two hopes:

Dying in America evaluates strategies to integrate care into a person- and family-centered, team-based framework, and makes recommendations to create a system that coordinates care and supports and respects the choices of patients and their families.

This resource, Finding Your Way Through Sudden Loss and Adversity, will include a variety of lessons on loss and growth as well as practical suggestions on how you can live with loss in a healthy way and grow from the experience. The workbook is broken up into three main sections that focus on living with loss, growing through loss, and preparing for loss. You can think of this workbook as a “choose your own adventure” type of resource. In other words, you do not necessarily need to read through the resource in any particular order. 

This WHO guide provides useful information and tools for the creation and integration of a dementia plan. The target audience is government representatives working in a dementia-related sector, but the guide may be useful for people with dementia and their caregivers, nongovernmental organizations, service providers, and researchers.

Source: World Health Organization (WHO), 2018.
https://www.who.int/publications