"Conversation Ready": A Framework for Improving End-of-Life Care (Second Edition)
This white paper provided by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) provides a framework to help health care organizations and clinicians provide respectful end-of-life care that is coordinated with a patient's goals, values, and preferences.
How to Talk to Your Patients about End-of-Life Care: A Conversation Ready Toolkit for Clinicians
This toolkit designed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvemnt (IHI) was created to help clinicians address some of the challenges of engaging with patients and their families regarding end-of-life conversations that develop over time. The toolkit provides and details four patient cases with diverse backgrounds and experiences at different points of illness, along with diverse clinicians in various care settings.
IHI's Patient Safety Essentials Toolkit
IHI's Vice President, Frank Frederico, RPh, gives an overview of IHI's Patient Safety Essentials Toolkit. Throughout this video, he takes a look at what it includes, how it can be used, and how it can help make an organization safer and more reliable.
Source: Institute for Healthcare (IHI), 2019.
https://www.ihi.org/resources/Pages/Tools/Patient-Safety-Essentials-Toolkit.aspx
Keeping Granny Safe on July 1: A Consensus on Minimum Geriatrics Competencies for Graduating Medical Students
This set of competencies is designed for graduating medical students, and acts as minimum set of geriatric competency standards for first-year residents. The competencies are based on accepted standards of evidence-based geriatric care and contain the following domains: medication management; self-care capacity; falls, balance and gait disorders; hospital care for elders; cognitive and behavioral disorders; atypical presentation of disease; health care planning and promotion; and palliative care.
Medicine in the 21st Century: Recommended Essential Geriatrics Competencies for Internal Medicine and Family Medicine Residents
This article outlines competencies for internal medicine and family medicine residents that are unique to the care of older adult patients, feasible within the structure of current residency programs, constitute a minimum but uniform expectation for all graduating residents.
Source: Journal of Graduate Medical Education, 2010.
https://meridian.allenpress.com/jgme
Multidisciplinary Competencies in the Care of Older Adults at the Completion of the Entry-level Health Professional Degree
These multidisciplinary competencies are designed for the care of older adults at the completion of entry-level health professional degrees. They focus on the unique characteristics and needs of older adults with an emphasis on ensuring person‐centered and directed care that supports the dignity, autonomy, and rights of each older person.
Position Statement on Interdisciplinary Team Training in Geriatrics: An Essential Component of Quality Health Care for Older Adults
This interdisciplinary team training (IDT) addresses those groups that can influence the development and expansion of academic and continuing education programs, including professional associations, credentialing and licensing bodies, accreditation organizations, and university administrators. This statement also emphasizes the urgent need for interdisciplinary teamwork as an essential educational component for all health professional trainees working with older adults.
Source: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2014.
Guidance on returning to classroom/lab during COVID-19
Following are new American Council of Academic Physical Therapy (ACAPT) guidelines for physical therapy education programs during this COVID-19 period and potentially beyond. These guidelines may also be relevant for other health education leaders.
The docs are included at: https://www.acapt.org/news/news-detail/2020/04/29/acapt's-response-to-the-covid-19-new-normal and cover:
The Use of Technology to Engage Persons with Dementia
This webinar (1.5 hrs) describes various technology and how it can improve the quality of life of older adults. It also discusses how to integrate these different technologies in the care of people living with dementia. Finally, the presenters discuss how to measure the impact and outcomes of the use of technology in older adult patients. Voice-narrated slides and the slides and text of the presentation are available.
Source: Mental Health and Aging Training Initiative, 2017.
Personality Disorders and Aging
This webinar (1.03 hrs) by Dr. Lindsey Slaughter discusses the importance of understanding personality disorders and how staff can effectively work with individuals affected by them. Challenges in the diagnosis and management are discussed. Narrated slides as well as the slides are available for download. A list of resources and answers to questions posed during the webinar are available.
Source: Mental Health and Aging Training Initiative, 2014.
https://worldeventsforum.net/mhati/