Health Equity and Aging: the Past, Present and Future
This presentation (54:20 min) is given by Dr. Roland Thorpe, Professor of Health Behavior, and Society, Director of the Program for Research on Men's Health, and Deputy Director, Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Thorpe discusses health equity and aging in the past, present, and future. He also discusses approaches to advance health equity and aging in older adults. (Presentation begins at 3:46 minutes).
Suicide in Older Adults
This website designed by the Suicide Prevention Resource Center discusses suicide prevention in the older adult population. It describes the risk and protective factors in this population. Resource links to fact sheets and toolkits for promoting psychological health, reducing loneliness and social isolation as well as suicide preventionfor senior centers and senior living communities are provided.
Medication Management: Low Tech
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.
Caregiver Training: Refusal to Bathe
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.
How to Use a Shower Chair
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.
Care Partner Activity Kit
This care partner activity kit designed by Memory Care Home Solutions provides a variety of activities for individuals with dementia and their care partners to complete together. These activities are designed to help reduce anxiety and stress as well as other mood problems dementia patients may experience. Each activity includes instructions for how to complete it.
Memory Care Home Solutions Virtual Tour
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.
Promoting medicare annual wellness visits
This module discusses the importance of promoting medicare annual wellness visits for older adults. This module aims to educate providers and clinical staff regarding the components, documentation, and benefits in providing Medicare Annual Wellness Visits to all eligible patients.
Sexuality, intimacy and dementia
Nursing home and assisted living center healthcare providers and nursing staff are challenged to address issues of intimacy, sexuality, and dementia regularly within those settings. This module discusses common misconceptions and approaches to appropriately met the needs of patients with dementia/Alzheimer's disease.
Advance care planning
This module discusses advance care planning that will assist the medical team in respecting the individual's wishes as he or she approaches the end of life. Upon completion of this module, participants should be able to: (1) identify the advanced directive document and how to complete them; (2) discuss challenges with completion of advance directives in those with different stages of cognitive impairments or who may be incapable of decision making; (3) review billing and coding for Advance Care Planning. Continuing education credits are available upon completion.