Prepared to Care
An ethnographic documentary by Dr Tanisha Jowsey
How are health care professional students – pharmacy, medicine and nursing – learning to manage the tough aspects of patient care? This ethnographic film documents their experiences in one powerful training initiative: Urgent and Immediate Patient Care Week.
Producers: Dr Tanisha Jowsey and Richard Smith
Director: Dr Tanisha Jowsey
How to Make a Home Safe for Your Aging Parent
This web page from AARP describes how families can adapt their home to accomodate an aging parent moving in. Both low-cost safety tips and examples of expensive renovations are included. Financial assistance options are discussed. The web page is available in English and Spanish.
Source: AARP, 2021.
https://www.aarp.org/caregiving/
Keeping Your Home Healthy Before, During and After Caregiver Visits
This web page from AARP includes expert advice for those living at home who require the assistance of home health aides and other caregivers on how to stay healthy before, during and afer in-home visits. Tips for disinfecting, distancing, deliveries and more are provided. The web page is available in English and Spanish.
Source: AARP, 2020.
https://www.aarp.org/caregiving/
PREPARE for Your Care
The PREPARE for Your Care program, a public health awareness campaign led by a coalition of national and state health care leaders, aims to help people make plans in the event of illness. The goal of the campaign is to inspire people to make a hospital go bag, choose a medical decision maker, and talk to family about health care wishes. The program includes video stories and provides guidance for filling out an advance directive. COVID-19 resources are included. Content is available in English and Spanish.
Source: PREPARE for Your Care, 2023.
Being Prepared in the Time of COVID-19
This guide from The Conversation Project, an intitiative of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, provides three important steps to take to be prepared in the time of COVID-19. Topics discussed include choosing a health care decision maker, talking about what matters to you, and thinking about what you would want if you become seriously ill with COVID-19.
Source: The Conversation Project and Ariadne Labs, 2020.
https://theconversationproject.org/covid19/
The Conversation Starter Kit
This Conversation Starter Kit from the The Conversation Project, an intitative of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, aims to help people share their wishes for end-of-life care with their loved ones. The Starter Kit's four steps guide the conversation and how to complete legal documents that reflect an individual's wishes.
Source: The Conversation Project, 2021.
https://theconversationproject.org/get-started
Who Will Speak For You? How to choose and be a health care proxy
This guide from The Conversation Project, an initiative of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, aims to help people choose and prepare a health care proxy. Information and resources for health care proxies are included.
Source: Institute for Healthcare Improvement & The Conversation Project, 2021.
https://theconversationproject.org/get-started
Your Conversation Starter Kit For Families and Loved Ones of People with Alzheimer's Disease or Other Forms of Dementia
This Conversation Starter Kit from The Conversation Project, an initiative of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, is designed to help families and loved ones of people with Alzheimer's disease or dementia begin the conversation about how they want to live at the end of their life. This guide will help yfamily members begin these talks in the early stages of decline, and it includes ways to use the Starter Kit on your loved one's behalf in the later stages.
Source: Institute for Healthcare Improvement & The Conversation Project, 2023.
How To Talk To Your Doctor: Discussing end-of-life care with your doctor, nurse, or other health care provider
This guide from The Conversation Project, an initiative of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, aims to help people talk to their health care team about their wishes for end-of-life care. This guide can be used as a workbook to make notes to prepare for the conversation. Example talking points and questions to ask at the visit are included.
Source: Institute for Healthcare Improvement & The Conversation Project, 2020.
https://theconversationproject.org/
Family Involvement in Care
This online training series on Family Involvement in Dementia Care was created by the Iowa Geriatric Education Center to help family caregivers develop the skills to act as partners in dementia care for their loved ones. Modules include videos, family interviews, hand-outs, and break-out discussions that teaches family members how to work as partners with staff in both community and long-term care settings. The ten-part series covers topics such as communicating with staff, negotiating on behalf of your loved one, asking difficult questions, managing medications, and more.