Challenges and Opportunities for Supporting Dementia Caregivers: Insights from Public Health Professionals
The Minnesota-North Dakota chapter of the Alzheimer's Association conducted interviews with 12 public health officials to gain a better understanding of the agencies' current work and experience with supporting caregivers of dementia patient and the challenges and opportunities anticipated for implementing dementia caregiving programs in the future. This document summarizes key themes and insights concluded from the interviews.
Treatment of Depression in Late Life
This presentation (18:33 minutes) given by Beth Labardi discusses how to treat depression in late life. The objective of this presentation is to know treatment options for late life depression and the factors to consider in selecting treatment options. The treatments discussed in the presentation are psychotherapy, medications, and electroconvulsive therapy.
Proactive Advance Care Planning in the Midst of COVID-19
This presentation (26:13 minutes) given by Lianne Hirano discusses how to give advance care planning during the time of COVID-19. By the end of this presentation, learners should be able to: (1) orient to where the system is, whether it is conventional capacity, contingency capacity, or crisis capacity; (2) figuring out if the patient is at a low risk, moderate risk, or high risk; (3) elicit patient values; (4) assign a healthcare proxy; and (5) how to respond to patient's emotion.
Tele-Geri: Building Blocks to a Successful Video Visit with your Older Patients
This presentation (19:11 minutes) given by Carrie Rubenstein discusses how to have a successful video visit on telehealth with geriatric patients.
Dementia Care During COVID-19: Lessons from Patients and Recommendations for Providers
This presentation (20:53 minutes) given by Carolyn Parsey discusses caring for dementia patients during COVID-19 that includes the perspectives of caregivers on this subject.
Conducting Fall Risk Assessments in the COVID-19 Era
This presentation (22:30 minutes) given by Elizabeth A. Phelan discusses assessing risk falls during the age of COVID-19 through telemedicine. The presentation starts with the epidemiology and impact of falls. It then goes through how to conduct a screening for falls and check for risk of falls with an emphasis on how to do it on telemedicine. Lastly, the presentation discusses how to manage falls and prevent them.
The Threatening and Violent Dementia Patient
This presentation (24:18 minutes) given by Whitney Carlson discusses patients with dementia and how to care for them. The presentation identifies the factors of aggression in dementia patient and steps providers could follow in order to de-escalate that aggression.
Deprescribing in Older Adults
This presentation (13:24 minutes) given by Zachary A. Marcum discusses deprescribing in older adults. Topics include: (1) defining deprescribing; (2) identify key resources for deprescribing; and (3) review how to become a 'prescriber'.
"Look in the Mouth"- Geriatric Oral Health for non-Dental Providers
This presentation (15:51 minutes) given by Maryam Tabrizi provides education on oral health of geriatric patients for those who are not dental providers. The objective of this presentation is that learners will be knowledgeable regarding oral health assessment of the elderly and recognize the good, bad, and the ugly oral conditions by visual assessment.
Assessing Cognition via Telemedicine
This presentation (21:43 minutes) given by Charles Bernick discusses how to assess cognition through telemedicine. The presentation includes topics such as the telemedicine model, cognitive screening, and neurological exam.