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This online family caregiver workshop created by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences provides a series of ten videos that discuss the various aspects of caregiving in older adults. The topics discussed in the videos include: The Diagnosis of Dementia; What is Caregiving?; Creating a Care Plan; Stages of Dementia and the Role of the Caregiver; Caregiver Duties; Tools and Resources; Caregiver Self Care; Addressing Behaviors with Dementia; Shared Decision Making; Discharge Planning. Videos can be accessed in the description under the video.

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In this video (17:18 mins), Dr. Paula Lester Associate Fellowship Program Director of Geriatric Medicine at Winthrop University Hospital, describes how end of life care issues such as feeding of patients with advanced dementia is a difficult and often emotionally fraught time for patients’ families and requires strong communication skills from their clinicians. This video demonstrates communication skills related to this topic including risk of skin breakdown and hospice eligibility.

The Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA), in collaboration with the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation, the Social Work Hospice and Palliative Care Network, the Association of Professional Chaplains, and the Oncology Nursing Society have developed grief educational resources for frontline providers. "Dealing with Grief" is a series of five videos, each 2-5 minutes long which are meant to provide timely and practical information and resources to professional caregivers, patients and their significant others on grief education during these unprecedented times.

This video (4:04 min) created by Memory Care Home Solutions provides low cost and low tech options for medication management in patients with dementia and memory loss.

This video (4:28 min) created by UCLA Alzheimer's and Dementia Care provides caregivers with tips on how to assist an individual who is refusing to bathe. Simulated situations are provided that demonstrates how to encourage undressing and bathing.

This video (3:33 min) created by Memory Care Home Solutions provides a tutorial on how to use a shower chair when a caregiver assists an individual with dementia or memory loss to bathe.

This video (9:02 min) provides a virtual tour of a dementia friendly home used for caregiver training by Memory Care Home Solutions. Jill Cigliana, program director of Memory Care Home Solutions, discusses different ways for families to make their homes a more supportive and enjoyable place for people living with dementia to live. She also provides solutions that families can easily and affordably implement in their own homes.

This video (24:12 minutes) from the Gateway Geriatric Education Center highlights common fall hazards found throughout a typical day for a nursing home resident. The locations addressed in this video are the bedroom, bathroom hallways and corridors, lighting and out-of-doors. Footwear and wheelchair safety are also discussed.

In this episode, Dr. Melissa Batchelor talks about Age-Friendly Health Systems with her special guest, Dr. Terry Fulmer, the President of the John A. Hartford Foundation. They discuss age-friendly health systems and how they are evolving with the constantly growing population of older adults.

Source: Utah Geriatric Education Consortium, 2020.
https://utahgwep.org/