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This web page from AARP includes expert advice for those living at home who require the assistance of home health aides and other caregivers on how to stay healthy before, during and afer in-home visits. Tips for disinfecting, distancing, deliveries and more are provided. The web page is available in English and Spanish.

Source: AARP, 2020.
https://www.aarp.org/caregiving/

This web page from AARP provides tips for meeting the unique challenges of caring for someone with Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia. Tips include clarifying the diagnosis, focusing on finances, making a plan, addressing safety concerns, and caring for yourself. The web page is available in English and Spanish.

Source: AARP, 2023.
https://www.aarp.org/caregiving/

This web page from The John A. Hartford Foundation centers on the elements of age-friendly care and how health systems can provide this type of care. The 4Ms of age-friendly care are described, and a guide to talk to your health care providers about the 4Ms is included.

Source: The John A. Hartford Foundation.
https://www.johnahartford.org/

The PREPARE for Your Care program, a public health awareness campaign led by a coalition of national and state health care leaders, aims to help people make plans in the event of illness. The goal of the campaign is to inspire people to make a hospital go bag, choose a medical decision maker, and talk to family about health care wishes. The program includes video stories and provides guidance for filling out an advance directive. COVID-19 resources are included. Content is available in English and Spanish.

This guide from The Conversation Project, an intitiative of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, provides three important steps to take to be prepared in the time of COVID-19. Topics discussed include choosing a health care decision maker, talking about what matters to you, and thinking about what you would want if you become seriously ill with COVID-19.

Source: The Conversation Project and Ariadne Labs, 2020.
https://theconversationproject.org/covid19/

This resource hub from the Center to Advance Palliative Care has tools, technical assistance, clinical training, and convening opportunities to help organizations in the middle of a COVID-19 surge or planning forward.

Source: Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), 2020.
https://www.capc.org/

This web page by the University of Louisville Trager Institute and the Republic Bank Foundation Optimal Aging Clinic provides weekly updates and informational sessions on a variety of topics about coronavirus. The videos focus particularly on older adults and individuals with chronic diseases. The videos include resources for viewers to access or look at for further information.

Source: Trager Institute and Republic Bank Foundation Optimal Aging Clinic, 2020.
https://www.tragerinstitute.org/

This PDF by Dr. Kelly O'Shea Carney, Executive Director of Phoebe Center for Excellence in Dementia Care, provides an overview of the Eldercare Method, an interdisciplinary behavioral health consultation model developed to foster the well being and highest level of function among frail elders within long-term care settings. The Eldercare Method utilizes a variety of tools and interventions that have been developed specifically to address the behavioral health needs of long term care residents.

Geriatric Fast Facts are accessible, concise, and clinically actionable 1-2 page reports on Geriatric topics applicable across medical specialties. Fast Facts are interdisciplinary, spanning the progression of medical education. Topics include age-friendly healthcare, healthcare literacy, communication, and caregiving in dementia patients.

Source: Geriatric Fast Facts.

This web site from the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing provides protocols or common geriatric symptoms that complement these protocols. published in Evidence-Based Geriatric Nursing Protocols for Best Practice. Use the drop-down menus to select a protocol or symptom, or use the search bar to type search a keyword.

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