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.
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.
SPIKES: A 6-Step Protocol for Delivering Bad News
Delivering bad news to patients in inherently negative and can contribute to stress and anxiety for clinicians. This module presents a six-step protocol for health care providers to use when delivering bad news. Upon completion of this module, participants should be able to: (1) define "bad news" and how it relates to clinical outcomes; (2) identify barriers and strategies to disclosing “bad news”; and (3) apply the six-step protocol of disclosing information that adversely affects a patients' perception of their future and quality of life.
An evaluation of a sustained senior mentor program for medical students
This article published in Gerontology and Geriatrics Education discusses medical student geriatrics education using community-based volunteer older persons, known as a Senior Mentor Program (SMP). Though these programs have been described and evaluated against curriculum objectives, the full breadth of students’ learning from SMPs has not been reported. This study conducted a qualitative study using content analysis of reflections of Year 2 medical students submitted during a single visit home-based SMP.
Family Presence Policy Decision-Making Toolkit
This decision-making toolkit released by Planetree International and the American Nurses Foundation was developed to help healthcare leaders implement hospital and nursing home visitation policies that balance safety and infection control with the importance of in-person family presence. The decision-making toolkit guides nurse leaders and other users through a process of considering a range of variables when establishing visiting parameters. These include local conditions, resource availability, equity, and current evidence about potential harms and benefits of family presence.