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This activity created by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is designed to educate healthcare providers with the most up-to-date information on the value of dementia. The target audience includes all healthcare professionals such as physicians, nurses, pharmacists and allied health professionals who would like to learn about the value of dementia and how it pertains to their respective profession.

This activity created by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is designed to educate healthcare providers with the most up-to-date information on supporting military caregivers. The target audience includes all healthcare professionals such as physicians, nurses, pharmacists and allied health professionals who would like to learn about supporting military caregivers and how it pertains to their respective profession.

This activity created by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is designed to educate healthcare providers with the most up-to-date information on racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19. The target audience includes all healthcare professionals such as physicians, nurses, pharmacists and allied health professionals who would like to learn about racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 and how it pertains to their respective profession.

This activity created by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is designed to educate healthcare providers with current information on age-friendly healthcare. The target audience includes all healthcare professionals such as physicians, nurses, pharmacists and allied health professionals who would like to learn about age-friendly healthcare.

This activity created by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is designed to educate healthcare providers with current information on neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease. The target audience includes all healthcare professionals such as physicians, nurses, pharmacists and allied health professionals who would like to learn about neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disesase.

This activity created by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is designed to educate healthcare providers with current information on opioid tapering. The target audience includes all healthcare professionals such as physicians, nurses, pharmacists and allied health professionals. By the end of this activity, learners should be able to: (1) Identify evidence-based practices for tapering opioids in patients using chronically; (2) Discuss cases of opioid tapering; and (3) Describe currently available tools tailored to help the busy clinician with opioid tapering.

Family Involvement in Dementia Care helps family members like you work together with healthcare providers in order to provide the best possible care for your loved one with dementia. Videos, family interviews, hand-outs and break-out discussions teach you how to work as partners with staff in both community and long-term care settings.

Drawing on experience and international research this guide, published by the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia, provides theoretical and practical models to design, embed and evaluate interprofessional education. The guide includes practical advice on leadership of interprofessional education, planning interprofessional curricula, designing, assessing and evaluating interprofessional learning experiences, professional development for staff facilitating interprofessional education and case studies from Australia, New Zealand and other parts of the globe.

The Diverse Elders Coalition has created a resource hub containing a new training curriculum for healthcare and social services providers. This curriculum will identify and address caregiving challenges faced by communities of color, LGBT communities, and American Indian/Alaska Native communities and offer tips and tools for providers looking to better serve diverse family caregivers and older adults. Free online trainings are available for organizations and community members to learn best practices in caregiving.

Source: Diverse Elders Coalition, 2021.

Faculty from the Division of Geriatrics at the University of California San Diego Medical School and the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System developed a Geriatrics Escape Room to improve resident exposure to geriatric medicine, introduce the 4Ms Framework of the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative, and increase resident interest in the specialty. This article describes the implementation of this teaching strategy and its evaluation in internal medicine residents. Supplemental materials provide puzzle instructions with materials used, surveys, and 4Ms care forms.