Interprofessional Oral Health Resources for Healthy Aging Month!
September is Healthy Aging Month, giving health professionals the opportunity to recognize the importance of oral health in promoting overall positive health outcomes as we age. Year-round, OHNEP enhances the nursing profession’s interprofessional role in oral health and its links to overall health in both academic and clinical settings. Adopting healthy habits and lifestyle changes - regular exercise, a nutritious diet, improved sleep patterns - are ways we can overcome health physical and mental health challenges that occur with age.
Upcoming Symposium: "Interoperability and Clinical Information Sharing to Improve Health Care Outcomes"
Register for the third annual Florida Combined Life–Florida Blue Foundation Medical-Dental Integration Symposium: "Interoperability and Clinical Information Sharing to Improve Health Care Outcomes" on Wednesday September 13 from 2:00pm-6:00pm ET. This Symposium allows dentists and hygienists to convene virtually through the American Academy of Dental Hygiene to discuss how MDI elevates the level of care provided to patients and improves systemic health.
Integrating Medical and Dental Care to Improve Health: CDC's New National Action Framework
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced a new national action framework to advance medical-dental integration (MDI) in the US. We know that good oral health is essential to promote overall health, yet medical and dental care continue to operate in silos. This framework will pave the way for providers to improve MDI across health care and public health settings and support whole-person integrated care.
Assessing Meaningful Community Engagement
Centering community engagement can meaningfully influence and impact the health and well-being of people. It can advance health equity and transform systems for health (e.g., health care policies and programs, housing, transportation) by ensuring that people closest to the problems are actively involved in driving needed changes and solutions.
What Matters: Tools Designed to Assist Primary Care Better Screen and Support Older Adults
This webinar (53:29 minutes) given by Drs. Ana Tuya Fulton and Mary Beth Welesko discusses the components of geriatric assessment along with geriatric assessment tools and how they can be applied in a primary care setting. It also identifies geriatric assessment tools for patients who would benefit from additional evaluation along with resources for patients and caregivers based on the results of a geriatric assessment. Free registration is required to access webinar. Continuing education credit is available. (Presentation begins at 3:10 minutes). This webinar is found under module 1.
Towards a dementia plan: a WHO guide
This WHO guide provides useful information and tools for the creation and integration of a dementia plan. The target audience is government representatives working in a dementia-related sector, but the guide may be useful for people with dementia and their caregivers, nongovernmental organizations, service providers, and researchers.
Source: World Health Organization (WHO), 2018.
https://www.who.int/publications
Geriatric ECHO: The Dialysis Decision
This presentation (58:43 minutes) by Rick Hayashi discusses renal replacement therapy in the elderly. He provides information on Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), kidney senescence, End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), and Renal Replacement Therapy (RRT) focusing on dialysis. Case studies are included in the presentation. (Presentation starts at 3:20 minutes.)
Source: John A. Burns School of Medicine, 2019, Project ECHO
https://geriatrics.jabsom.hawaii.edu/echo/
Geriatric ECHO: Dementia in the Developmentally Disabled
This presentation (52:54 minutes) by Ritabelle Fernandes discusses people living with dementia and intellectual disabilities. The presentation also includes risks and prevalence of dementia, insights on what screening tool to use, and approaches to intellectual disabilities and dementia.
Source: John A. Burns School of Medicine, 2019, Project ECHO
https://geriatrics.jabsom.hawaii.edu/echo/
The Immigrant Memory Collaborative: A Community-University Partnership to Assess African Immigrant Families' Experience with Dementia
This article describes the process of working collaboratively with a community partner and project advisory board to conduct a culturally informed project. Specifically, this article describes the process of developing culturally informed instruments to collect data on dementia care needs and resources among African immigrants. Working together with a diverse project advisory board, a guide was developed and used to conduct community conversations about experiences with dementia/memory loss.