Social Determinants of Health
This presentation (11:33 minutes) given by April Recher on August 6th, 2020 on Social Determinants of Health
Health Systems and Medical Professionals
The Alzheimer's Association is partnering with medical experts to address the rising costs of dementia care and improve patient experience and outcomes along the way. With their help, your network will gain the knowledge necessary to make timely diagnoses and treatment plans, reducing more expensive hospitalizations and allowing you to more effectively manage costs. This website provides guidelines and recommendations for healthcare professionals, as well as a variety of resources that can help patients and caregivers cope and live with a dementia diagnosis.
Early Detection of Dementia Toolkit-Health Systems
BOLD Early Detection Toolkits are intended to guide you in customizing dementia detection efforts to your needs and setting. Toolkits contain measures, strategies, and useful links to resources to help you work toward becoming more ‘dementia-capable.’ This toolkit supports a comprehensive approach to dementia detection and includes resources that encompass a broad view of the capacities needed to make your efforts most effective. Every section in this toolkit can stand alone as a separate resource.
Rapid Geriatric Assessment
The Rapid Geriatric Assessment (RGA) is a brief screening tool that:
• provides a brief, reliable method for detecting common geriatric syndromes, including frailty, sarcopenia, geriatric anorexia, and cognitive function;
• helps identify problems for which early interventions are most likely to be successful; and
• enables tracking of changes over time (annual screening checks)
Community Resources: Dementia Friendly Toolkit
ACT on Alzheimer's® Dementia Friendly Community Toolkit provides tools and resources to guide communities in adopting dementia-friendly practices. The toolkit is divided into four phases: Convene, Assess, Analyze and ACT Together.
Source: ACT on Alzheimer's.
https://actonalz.org/
Interprofessional capability framework
This capability framework was informed by the orginal Canadian competency framework published in 2010 but describes interprofessional competencies/capabilities in the Australian education context. More specifcally Curtin University's health science faculty which includes 26 disciplines.
Geriatric 5Ms Workshop for Primary Care
This interactive workshop (materials freely downloadble and editable) has 4 modules that follow an older adult in the outpatient setting, focused on Mobility, Mind, Medications, What Matters/Multicomplexity.
Building evaluation into the development of interprofessional education initiatives
The evaluations described in this chapter have highlighted the need to have a better understanding of the long-term effect and outcomes of IPE programmes as a whole. From an institutional perspective these results are important for the maintenance of funding streams to support IPE programmes. From a health system perspective these may indicate where resources can be best allocated to achieve goals for the workforce.
Comparing evaluation responses of an IPE initiative in nursing and medical programmes
This study describes and compares evaluation feedback from students in undergraduate nursing and medicine programmes about the learning outcomes of an interprofessional education initiative. Findings were interpreted to indicate that students from both programmes valued the learning outcomes, and this was greater at the end of the session. Notably, the perceived value of interprofessional learning was higher for nursing students than medical students before and after the session.
Interprofessional Education for Cancer Care
This evaluation explored student and tutor reactions to IPE, and any changes in perceptions and attitudes. A workplace-based, 6-hour IPE pilot on cancer care, led by clinical tutors, was undertaken in a New Zealand hospital. Both students and tutors reported benefits from having IPE in the workplace environment, with cancer care seen as a suitable topic. Students reported a better understanding of professional roles, skills and the provision of collaborative care, and suggested other professions should be included in future IPE.