Anxiety in Older Adults- Pharmacotherapy
This handout discusses how to manage anxiety symptoms in older adults through pharmacotherapy. Useful tables on conditions and medications that are cause anxiety, risks of long-term benzodiazepinertain therapy, and anti-anxiety medications with geriatric considerations are included.
Ageism
This handout defines and identifies the prevalance of ageism. It also provides steps clinicians can take to reduce ageism among themselves, their communities, and their patients.
Dementia: Not All Dementia is Alzheimer's Disease
This handout describes the different types of dementia outside of Alzheimer's disease, and how to care for older adults with these various dementias.
Taking Steps to Prevent Falls (A Cup of Health with CDC)
This podcast produced by A Cup of Health with CDC provides a look into preventative steps to take to avoid falls in older adults. Elizabeth Burns is interviewed to discuss how aging affects falls and how to prevent them. (3.52 minutes)
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2016.
https://tools.cdc.gov/medialibrary/index.aspx#/results
Brain Health: You Can Make a Difference!
This webpage offers many resources on brain health for older adults, health professionals, caregivers, and the general public. Links to presentations, brochures, and handouts that cover topics on brain health basics, medicine, age and the brain, brain injury, and dementia.
Coordinated Care Plan to Prevent Older Adult Falls
This book provides a coordinated care plan to help prevent falls in older adults. Each chapter covers a different topic related to the prevention and care coordination of falls.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2021.
https://www.cdc.gov/
Medications Linked to Falls Fact Sheet
This fact sheet provides information on how medication management can reduce interactions and side effects that may lead to falls in older adults.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2017.
https://www.cdc.gov/
Communicating with Older Adult Patients
This interactive online presentation is designed to help health care professionals and others understand how to communicate with older adults, including those with hearing and vision problems, and when a caregiver is present. Embedded videos and quiz questions are included.
Source: Florida State University College of Medicine, 2019.
https://med.fsu.edu/
Pain Assessment and Management for the RN/LPN
This online learning module helps RN's and LPN's learn how to assess and manage pain in older adults. The module is interactive and provides short quizzes to test your knowledge throughout the topics.
Source: Florida State University College of Medicine, 2019.
https://med.fsu.edu/
Falls Prevention Among Adults Aging with Disability
This webinar covers research on falls among adults with long-term physical and sensory disabilities, such as multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injuries, cerebral palsy, and visual impairment. Prevention strategies and programs are discussed.
Source: National Council on Aging (NCOA), 2016.
https://ncoa.org/