Ethnic, Racial, and Cultural Perceptions in End-of-Life Issues
This handout compares the perceptions of end-of-life issues within four different groups: African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic/Latino Americans, and Native Americans. Tips for supporting ethnically, racially, and culturally diverse patients and families at the end of life.
The Essentials of Preventing Falls in the Older Adult
This slides presentation provides information on the epidemiology of falls, an approach for fall risk screening and post-fall assessment, and interventions to reduce fall risk in older adults.
Source: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 2015.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/
Communication Tips for Dementia Friendly Communities
This video (7:18 minutes) discusses ten tips for communicating clearly and respectfully with people with dementia or cognitive impairment. With each tip, a demonstration of the tip being used in common situations is provided.
Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Aging Research and Education, 2023.
https://care.nursing.wisc.edu/dementia-friendly-toolkit/
Tips for Providers to Make Healthcare Dementia Friendly
This video (9:01 min) discusses tips for healthcare providers regarding how to communicate with and advocate for people with dementia and their family caregivers. It also demonstrates these tips being used during a simulated appointment.
Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Aging Research and Education, 2023.
https://care.nursing.wisc.edu/dementia-friendly-toolkit/
Geriatric Simulations Toolkit
This toolkit includes guidance and materials to use in four simulations related to caring for older adults. The simulations include: an introduction to aging and home health nursing assessment, hospital care of older adults with a fall and acute respiratory symptoms, interprofessional home health assessments, and interprofessional skilled inpatient rehabilitation of older adults. The purpose of this toolkit is to improve the confidence and competence in adapting care of older adults while increasing the exposure for nursing students to various healthcare settings such as long term care.
What is an Age-Friendly Health System?
In this brief video, Dr. Mary Tinetti describes what it means to be an Age-Friendly Health System. An Age-Friendly Health Systerm is an initiative of the John A. Hartford Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in partnership with the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the Catholic Health Association of the United States (CHA).
Source: Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), 2019.
Age-Friendly Health Systems: Guide to Using the 4M's in the Care of Older Adults
This guide is designed to help health care teams test and implement a specific set of evidence-based geriatric practices called the 4M's. The 4M's include: What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility.
Source: Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), 2020.
"What Matters" to Older Adults?
This toolkit is written to help health systems design better care for older adults while continuing to understand "what matters" the most to each adult. It also discusses how to prepare for and conduct specific "what matters" conversations with older adults and caregivers.
Source: Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), 2019.
https://www.ihi.org/Topics/WhatMatters/Pages/default.aspx
Introducing The 4Ms Framework for an Age-Friendly Health System
This brief video provides an introduction to the 4Ms Framework for Age-Friendly Health Systems. It discusses how healthcare professionals can deliver "what matters" evidence-based care to older adults reliably across every care setting.
Source: RUSH Center for Excellence in Aging
https://www.rush.edu/
4Ms Framework
This framework provides a diagram of the 4Ms of an Age-Friendly Healthcare System. Each M within the framework is given a description of what it is.
Source: Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)