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September is Healthy Aging Month, giving health professionals the opportunity to recognize the importance of oral health in promoting overall positive health outcomes as we age. Year-round, OHNEP enhances the nursing profession’s interprofessional role in oral health and its links to overall health in both academic and clinical settings. Adopting healthy habits and lifestyle changes - regular exercise, a nutritious diet, improved sleep patterns - are ways we can overcome health physical and mental health challenges that occur with age.

This series of articles won the 2018 ASHPE Bronze Award for Best Special Supplement. They were written to help nurses provide family caregivers with tools to manage their loved one’s health care at home. Produced in cooperation with the AARP Public Policy Institute, each article includes an informational tear sheet and links to educational videos for caregivers.

Need to Knows provide older adults and their families with important information to enhance their hospital or nursing home stays. This webpage provides numerous documents describing this crucial information for patients and families to consider for a variety of topics.

Source: Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders (NICHE) , 2022
https://nicheprogram.org/resources/need-to-knows

As we age, physical activity helps us attain our goals, maintain our functioning, and promote comfort. The videos on this web page include strength, balance, and flexibility exercises, which can help prevent falls and hip fractures. In addition, routine exercise can help prevent heart disease, reduce arthritis pain, and improve mood, sleep and blood sugar control, in addition to many other health promoting effects. If you prefer not to follow a video, an instruction sheet (PDF) provides several daily exercises appropriate for older adults who can stand with minimal or no support.

This website provides a variety of resources created by the Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation. The Center’s mission is to bring the consumer experience to the forefront of health innovation in order to deliver better care, better value and better health for every community, particularly vulnerable and historically underserved populations.provides a variety of resources for individuals to review. Resources include blog posts, publications, comment letters, and news clips.

This infographic explores the challenges, benefits, opportunities, and concerns of caregivers caring for pet owners.

This infographic explores the challenges, benefits, opportunities, and concerns of client pet ownership encountered by professionals.

This toolkit provides different resources and information for clinicians on ACE screening and clinical response. Resources are organized by type, topic, and by stage. Resources can also be found by using the advanced search. ACEs Aware is sharing learnings, research, practices, and experiences in hopes to unite all to advance the standard of care for ACEs and toxic stress.

Source: ACEs Aware
https://www.acesaware.org/

This resource provides practice tools and resources to help those who work with patients and clients with memory concerns and to support their care partners. Included in this toolbox are a protocol practice tool for cognitive impairment, a decision support tool for dementia care, a protocol practice tool for mid- to late-stage dementia, care coordination practice tools, and tips and action steps to share with a person diagnosed with Alzheimer's.

The National Resource Center on LGBTQ+ Aging, a program of SAGE, is the country's first and only technical assistance resource center focused on improving the quality of services and supports offered to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender older adults, families and caregivers. Established in 2010 through a federal grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Resource Center on LGBTQ+ Aging provides training, technical assistance and educational resources to aging providers, LGBTQ+ organizations and LGBTQ+ older adults.