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The Teaching Nursing Home Series prepares nursing home staff and nursing school faculty to develop academic-practice partnerships and provide meaningful learning experiences for students.

This course teaches home health aides how to spot key changes in memory and behavior that might be signs of dementia. It highlights differences between normal aging and dementia, providing clues in a person's home and actions that suggest they might need more help. Learners will need to register in to access the content.

Source: NYU Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing (HIGN), 2025
https://hign.org/

The Foundations of Practice for Interprofessional Age-Friendly Care is for healthcare professionals who are interested in developing a foundational practice for age-friendly care. It is divided into an introduction, and three short sections: The Aging Population, Models of Care and the Interprofessional Team and Age-Friendly Care.

The Integrating the 4Ms into the Care of Older Adults for Social Workers course provides social work students and professionals with an introduction to the 4Ms framework and its application in the care of older adults.

Participants will learn how to integrate the core elements of What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility into their social work practice as part of an interdisciplinary team. Learners will need to register in to access the content.

NYU’s NEXGen Aging GWEP released a course which introduces health professionals on how to incorporate the 4Ms into their practice. This series consists of individual and interactive online modules featuring the latest content developed by faculty at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing, engaging graphics, and knowledge checks for learners as they proceed through the learning content. Nursing Continuing Professional Development contact hours are available for this course. Learners will need to register in to access the content.

This webpage provides access to a set of learning modules that deal with multiple aspects of dementia:

As a dental professional, you can play a key role in caring for and supporting people with dementia and their care partners. You and your team can learn how to provide ongoing oral health services, promote timely detection and diagnosis, educate about dementia, and connect people with community resources that promote quality of life. As a dental care setting with dementia champions and helpful practices, you and your team can advance your community’s effort to be supportive of everyone touched by the disease.

Whether you are taking this paid online course as a requirement for employment, licensure or certification, professional development or continuing education, or as a prerequisite to a college or university course, Ageism First Aid will help change how you think and feel about older people and aging. It will also help improve your communication with and about older people, which will help improve the quality of life of older people where you live, work, and study.

This is an online learning module created by the Native American Elder Justice Initiative. The materials presented in the elder justice curriculum are designed to help those working with Native American elderly to understand the various types of elder abuse and become more knowledgeable about elder abuse issues. The materials will assist staff in responding appropriately to Indigenous victims of crimes and their families and enhance provision of culturally sensitive services.

This is an online learning module created by the Native American Elder Justice Initiative.The materials presented in the elder justice curriculum are designed to help those working with Native American elderly to understand the various types of elder abuse and become more knowledgeable about elder abuse issues. The materials will assist staff in responding appropriately to Indigenous victims of crimes and their families and enhance provision of culturally sensitive services.