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This educational module designed by Collaborative Action Team Training for Community Health-Older Adult Network (CATCH-ON) is part of the 4Ms of Age-Friendly Health Care program. By the end of this module, learners will know: (1) the importance of choosing the appropriate family caregiver; (2) how health care providers and older adults and their caregivers can best communicate with each other; (3) the challenges and positive aspects of caregiving; and (4) how to support family caregivers.

This website designed by the Suicide Prevention Resource Center discusses suicide prevention in the older adult population. It describes the risk and protective factors in this population. Resource links to fact sheets and toolkits for promoting psychological health, reducing loneliness and social isolation as well as suicide preventionfor senior centers and senior living communities are provided.

This care partner activity kit designed by Memory Care Home Solutions provides a variety of activities for individuals with dementia and their care partners to complete together. These activities are designed to help reduce anxiety and stress as well as other mood problems dementia patients may experience. Each activity includes instructions for how to complete it.

This module discusses the importance of promoting medicare annual wellness visits for older adults. This module aims to educate providers and clinical staff regarding the components, documentation, and benefits in providing Medicare Annual Wellness Visits to all eligible patients.

Nursing home and assisted living center healthcare providers and nursing staff are challenged to address issues of intimacy, sexuality, and dementia regularly within those settings. This module discusses common misconceptions and approaches to appropriately met the needs of patients with dementia/Alzheimer's disease.

This module discusses advance care planning that will assist the medical team in respecting the individual's wishes as he or she approaches the end of life. Upon completion of this module, participants should be able to: (1) identify the advanced directive document and how to complete them; (2) discuss challenges with completion of advance directives in those with different stages of cognitive impairments or who may be incapable of decision making; (3) review billing and coding for Advance Care Planning. Continuing education credits are available upon completion.

Delivering bad news to patients in inherently negative and can contribute to stress and anxiety for clinicians. This module presents a six-step protocol for health care providers to use when delivering bad news. Upon completion of this module, participants should be able to: (1) define "bad news" and how it relates to clinical outcomes; (2) identify barriers and strategies to disclosing “bad news”; and (3) apply the six-step protocol of disclosing information that adversely affects a patients' perception of their future and quality of life.

This tipsheet created by the Minnesota Northstar GWEP is designed for preceptors to use with students in practice settings. It provides a brief summary of the epidemiology, screening, assessment, and treatment of depression in primary care settings, and provides precepting tips to engage health professional students in learning how to assess depression and its impact in caregivers.

This tipsheet created by the Minnesota Northstar GWEP is designed for preceptors to use with students in practice settings. It discusses the 4Ms framework of an age-friendly health system, and provides teaching tips to engage health professional students in learning how to implement the 4Ms framework.

The Long Term Care Community Coalition issued a new policy brief with focused recommendations for addressing the longstanding gaps in nursing home quality assurance and accountability that have harmed vulnerable residents and devastated families across the United States. The brief focuses on steps that Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) can take to improve nursing home resident safety, dignity, & financial integrity.