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Doctors and End-of-Life Discussions is a video (8:33min) produced by PBS. The resource is an overview of the importance of providing patient-centered care around end-of-life care communication.

This video presentation (48:13 min) given by Dr. Bruce E. Robinson discusses various opportunities for healthcare professionals to improve the efficiency of comprehensive evaluations of older adult patients. He also reviews the role of comprehensive assessments in developing clinical expectations. Finally, he ends his presentation by discussing the role of the clinicial in facilitating good choices for care of older adults.

Source: University of Southern Florida GWEP, 2016.
https://health.usf.edu/gwep

These ACT on Alzheimer's screening, assessment, diagnosis, and care coordination videos may be useful for care providers of clients who have memory concerns. Using clinical settings and real clients, these videos include an introduction to cognitive screening; administering the Mini-Cog, SLUMS, and MoCA assessments; delivering an Alzheimer's disease diagnosis; and discussing post-diagnostic care coordination strategies.

This podcast series and blog, hosted by nurse/nurse practitioner Melissa Batchelor, PhD, offers infomation on a wide range of topics including alzheimer's dementia, care for aging transgender people, diet and lifestyle, age-friendly technology, information for care-givers, policy and public health, and ageism. This epsiode gives an overview of this podcast series.

Source: Melissa B PhD, 2020
https://melissabphd.com/podcast-blog/

The John A. Hartford Foundation puts what matters to the patient first. President Terry Fulmer says that strategy fights ageism and improves care. In this video, Dr. John Whyte interviews Dr. Fulmer to learn about what matters to the patient first as they get older and develop more health conditions. Dr. Fulmer also TALKS about fighting ageism and improving care for older adults.

In this video, Richard is an older adult who takes 10 medications a day. The older he gets, the more he has to take, and the more he has to manage. It's why experts worry about medication burden so Dr. Nicole Brandt and Dr. Evelyn Mwangi talk about medication and older adults.

Source: WebMD, 2023.
https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/toc-aging-well

In this video, a caregiver, Jelicia Harrison, and an expert, Nora Super, explain what is normal memory loss with aging and what lost memories are not normal.

Source: WebMD, 2023
https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/toc-aging-well

In this video, Jackie is an older adult who shares her experiences with mobility and aging. Lil Banchero of the Institute for Healthy Aging provides more information on mobility and what interventions can help with it.

Source: WebMD, 2023
https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/toc-aging-well

Accurately diagnosing older adults can be challenging for a number of reasons. Providers have to consider the aging process and effective communication which is discussed by Evelyn Mwangi and Christine Cassel in this video.

Source: WebMD, 2023
https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/toc-aging-well

Art + Medicine explores healthcare through story, song and the arts. In this video, Drs. Jon Hallberg and Tseganesh Selameab explore healthy aging through the 4M's framework of Mobility, Mentation (more commonly thought as mood and memory), Medication and What Matters to older adults, all with an artistic lens. This series is a co-production of TPT-Twin Cities PBS and the Center for the Art of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School.