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This NIA website provides information on Alzheimers and related dementias, with links to learn more about the disease, symptoms and diagnosis, treatment, caregiving, living with dementia, resources for professionals, and dementia research and clinical trials along with recent articles.

Source: National Institue on Aging (NIA), 2020.
https://www.nia.nih.gov/

This link provides access to resources associated with the 2019 American Geriatrics Society Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults. These include the publication describing the updated criteria, a Using Wisely page about how to use the criteria, a guide for patients, clinicians, health systems, and payers, a pocketcard, teaching slides, and patient education materials.

This website provides resources for clinicians, patients, and caregivers related to making care and treatment decisions while honoring patient priorities. Several downloadable materials provide tolls for patients to identify their health priorities, conversation guides for patients and caregivers, tips for patients to communicate with clinicians, a decision aid for care at home or in the community, and a caregiver self-assessment tool.

This online caregiver tip sheet discusses caregiving and respite care when caring for a person with a stroke.

Patient education fact sheet on causes of fall and what to do when there is a fall at home

Research protocol from AHRQ re: prevention, diagnosis, and management of opioids, opioid misuse, and opioid use disorder in older adults; could be useful for developing educational materials; references (8/16/2019)

Sponsored by the Alzheimer's Association, this website contains 12 caregiver training resources that address warning signs of Alzheimer's disease, understanding dementia types, stages and risk factors, dementia conversations about driving, doctor visits, and legal and financial planning, communication strategies, living with Alzheimer's for caregivers and for people with Alzheimer's disease, and how to respond to dementia-related behavior. Some topics are provided in Spanish as well as English.

This toolkit is a resource for understanding the AGS Guiding Principles for the Care of Older Adults with Multimorbidity. It contains several articles from the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society that outline guiding principles, a stepwise approach for patient-centered care, a pocket card, assessment tools, teaching slides, and case studies.

A website of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing that provides videos, assessment tools, articles, and podcasts related to the Try This: Series on 35 topics.

2020 has been declared the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife by the World Health Assembly, a World Health Organization (WHO) forum.

Nurses and midwives are recognized for their devotion to providing valuable and life-saving care in hospitals, homes and throughout the community. On the frontlines of health care, nurses and midwives are especially well-positioned to provide oral health education and screening to promote oral and overall health.