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This comprehensive geriatric assessment toolkit is a unique one-stop kit of evidence-based resources with customizable tools for providers with appropriate instructions which are ready to print and use. Materials for clients and caregivers are also available. The toolkit presents definitions, explanations, and resources for 5 topics: comprehensive geriatric assessment, frailty, geriatric syndromes, proactive care, and personalized planning. The toolkit offers information on how to translate its content into over 100 different languages, and it is mobile device-friendly.

This Conversation Starter Kit from the The Conversation Project, an intitative of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, aims to help people share their wishes for end-of-life care with their loved ones. The Starter Kit's four steps guide the conversation and how to complete legal documents that reflect an individual's wishes.

Source: The Conversation Project, 2021.
https://theconversationproject.org/get-started

This guide from The Conversation Project, an initiative of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, aims to help people choose and prepare a health care proxy. Information and resources for health care proxies are included.

Source: Institute for Healthcare Improvement & The Conversation Project, 2021.
https://theconversationproject.org/get-started

This Conversation Starter Kit from The Conversation Project, an initiative of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, is designed to help families and loved ones of people with Alzheimer's disease or dementia begin the conversation about how they want to live at the end of their life. This guide will help yfamily members begin these talks in the early stages of decline, and it includes ways to use the Starter Kit on your loved one's behalf in the later stages.

This guide from The Conversation Project, an initiative of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, aims to help people talk to their health care team about their wishes for end-of-life care. This guide can be used as a workbook to make notes to prepare for the conversation. Example talking points and questions to ask at the visit are included.

Source: Institute for Healthcare Improvement & The Conversation Project, 2020.
https://theconversationproject.org/

The AGS/ADGAP COVID-19 Educational Toolkit is a compendium of resources created by AGS and ADGAP members and available to all members. The toolkit includes a variety of teaching tools and resources intended to help providers care for older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. All educational tools are organized by their intended setting. It is free to create an account and download the material.

Source: American Geriatrics Society, 2020.

Ariadne Labs’ Serious Illness Care Program developed a COVID-19 Response Toolkit to help patients have important conversations with people they trust within their support networks. Additionally, the Toolkit includes resources for health systems and clinicians to address the communications needs of patients in the community, hospital, and long-term care. Simulated video conversations for multiple settings are included. Translations are available in six different languages.

This link from AGS's Health in Aging Foundation provides a Caregiver Self-Assessment Questionnaire iwhich s designed to help caregivers understand and maintain their well-being while caring for their loved ones. The assessment includes a series of yes or no questions as well as rating one's stress on a scale from 1-10. At the end of the assessment, the caregiver is given a score and description of things that may help them maintain or improve their well-being as a caregiver.

This toolkit created by the Alzheimer's Association assists clinicians in obtaining required assessments and create a care plan that meets Medicare's comprehensive care planning service code (G0505) for patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. It provides a variety of validated assessment tools and patient and family resources, along with commonly used ICD-10 codes for dementia and mild cognitive impairment. It also highlights which CPT codes that cannot be billed with G0505 on the same day of service.

This toolkit contains resources to help staff in senior living communities promote nonpharmacologic behavioral health strategies to address behavioral and psychological symptoms of distress (BPSD) that frequently occur in long-term care residential settings, especially among residents with dementia. It is divided into sections that cover the topic of promoting positive behavioral health.