Resource Center

Education and Training from The National Center for Equitable Care for Elders, which develops and disseminates webinars, modules, learning collaboratives, and publications to support health center providers and staff as they care for an aging patient population. We partner with subject matter experts and health care professionals in various fields to provide up-to-date information and comprehensive overviews of relevant topics.

Age Without Limits has created the first free library showing positive and realistic images of over 50s. Photos show a more realistic and diverse depiction of ageing – to help challenge stereotypes of older people. The library, which contains over 3,000 images and is regularly updated, is available for anyone to use for free.

Source: Age Without Limits, 2024, https://libguides.umn.edu/az.php?a=a&t=30801

The E4 Center of Excellence, in partnership with CATCH-ON, the Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program based at Rush, and the Rush Center for Excellence in Aging has developed an online educational program that provides basic knowledge that every mental health clinician needs to work effectively with older adults. This 16-hour self-paced certificate program can serve as a first step in developing competency in older adult mental health.

The engAGED Social Engagement Innovations Hub houses best and emerging social engagement programs. Searchable by a variety of filters—including social engagement intervention type, geographic area served or partners involved—the Innovations Hub gives you access to replicable examples to inspire and inform your organization’s social engagement efforts. Each program summary within the Innovations Hub contains all you need to know about that particular program, such as partners involved, outcomes demonstrated, lessons learned, resources needed and contact information to learn more.

The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has published a white paper related to goal-aligned care. The paper discusses how goal attainment scaling, a method organizations can use to document, monitor, and help people make progress on personalized goals extensively used in research, can be considered in quality measurement. NCQA convened multidisciplinary experts to review the current landscape of goal attainment scaling, discuss implementation methodologies and gain a better understanding of best practices implementing the method with diverse audiences.

The National Commission on Correctional Health Care recognizes the importance of effectively caring for the

It is estimated that by 2030 there will be approximately 7 million LGBTQ+ people in the U.S. who are 50 and older. LGBTQ+ older people face unique challenges as we age. LGBTQ+ elders are: Twice as likely to be single and live alone, four times less likely to have children, far more likely to have faced discrimination and social stigma, and more likely, therefore, to face poverty and homelessness, and to have poor health.

In this GeriPal podcast (44:53 minutes), Melisa Wong, a geriatric oncologist, and Louise Walter, a geriatrician and leader in cancer screening for older adults, talk about the shifting landscape of geriatric oncology, including: 1) How to think about cancer screening in older adults, moving beyond a one-size-fits all age-based approach to individualize cancer screening decisions.

In the GeriPal podcast (48:38 minutes), Deborah Ejem, a medical sociologist and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Alabama Birmingham, and Deep Ashana, a pulmonary critical care physician and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Duke University, discuss structural, institutional, and interpersonal racism as well as how these different but related constructs negatively impact the care of older adults and people with serious illness.

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 should go into high quality conversations, the evidence for and against any of this, and ultimately where we go from here. Also included is a Venn diagram of advance care planning and serious illness communication.