Medication Management
This presentation (14:39 minutes) given by Denise P. Kruszynski, clinical educator and trainer for the Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program at Nova Southeastern University, discusses medication management designed to promote an age-friendly healthcare system. By the end of this lecture, learners should be able to: (1) explain the 4M framework; and (2) understand how prescribing medications applies to establishing an age-friendly healthcare system.
Challenges for LGBT Seniors
This presentation (32:17 minutes) given by Ashley Stripling, Associate professor at NSU's College of Psychology and Director of NSU's Counseling Center for Older Adults, discusses the challenges that LGBT older adults face. By the end of this lecture, learners should be able to: (1) recognize relevant population trends in LGBTQ older adults; (2) articulate unique challenges faced by LGBTQ older adults; and (3) mobilize participants to take action to improve the delivery of care and research for LGBTQ older adults.
Optimizing Oral Health in Older Adults: Relevance to Disease and Nutrition
This presentation (39:44 minutes) given by Melinda Luis and Ujwal Patel discusses how to optimize oral health in the older adult population.
2021 GVPA Convention: Building Immunity in the Age of COVID
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A Model to Promote Public Health by Adding Evidence-Based, Empathy-Enhancing Programs to All Undergraduate Health-care Curricula
Fostering empathy in future health-care providers through service-learning is emerging as central to public health promotion. Patients fare better when their caregivers have higher relationship-centered characteristics such as the ones measured by the Jefferson Scale of Empathy. Unfortunately, these characteristics often deteriorate during health-care professional training. Nevertheless, growing literature documents how we can promote empathy, and other patient-centered characteristics, throughout health-care professional students’ undergraduate education.
WORKING AND LEARNING TOGETHER IN RURAL HOSPITALS: ENGAGING ACROSS BOUNDARIES TO ENHANCE COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE
The aim of this thesis is to establish how interprofessional education (IPE) can promote interprofessional learning (IPL) and enhance collaborative practice in rural health settings. Furthermore, it examines five different types of IPE activities to find out how IPE or IPL might promote or influence collaborative practice in rural hospitals. Rural practice was the main focus because the research has been conducted by an experienced rural clinician.
The research approach is qualitative and reflects a social constructivist perspective.
Reducing the Impact of Dementia in America: A Decadal Survey of the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Research in the social and behavioral sciences points to possibilities for preventing or slowing the development of dementia and for substantially reducing its social and economic impacts. At the request of the National Institute on Aging of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conducted a consensus study using a decadal survey to assess the contributions of research in the social and behavioral sciences. This report complements an array of initiatives occurring as part of the National Plan to Address Alzheimer's.
Dementia-Related Psychosis: Strategies to Address Barriers to Care Across Settings
This white paper by a Gerontological Society of America clinical workgroup summarizes the evidence related to dementia-related psychosis and provides strategies to address barriers to care across a variety of settings. Recommendations for how to improve early detection and diagnosis, facilitate care, improve approaches to treatment/guideline-based care and transitions of care, reducting setting-specific challenges, supporting clinicians, and advocacy and payer engagement are discussed.
Partner Resources, National Association of Chronic Disease Directors
CDC’s Alzheimer’s Disease and Healthy Aging Program and the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD) partnered to incorporate brain health messages into existing chronic disease messages. The four rack cards and infographic are downloadable and include risk reduction messages about how the promotion of these behaviors can reduce risk for memory loss and promote brain health. Rack cards and infographic can also be customized to include your organization’s logo. These resources are also available in Spanish.
Caring for Those Who Care: Meeting the Needs of Diverse Family Caregivers
This toolkit created by the Diverse Elders Coalition (DEC) was created to help professional and voluntary caregivers, providers and a wide array of professionals better understand the unique realities and challenges diverse caregivers face and best practices they can employ to better care for diverse family caregivers, and ultimately, the older adults they care for.