Grief During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Considerations for Palliative Care Providers
This article written by Drs. Allison Gibson, Cara L. Wallace, Patrick White, and Stephanie P. Wladkowski describes the relationship of the COVID-19 pandemic to anticipatory grief, disenfranchised grief, and complicated grief for individuals, families, and their providers. It also provides discussion regarding countering this grief through communication, advance care planning, and self-care practices.
Older Persons and the COVID-19 Pandemic
This brief article written by Dr. John E. Morley discusses COVID-19 in the older adult population, and specific things older adults should do to avoid contracting the disease. TThe article describes the Simple "FRAIL" Questionnaire Screening Tool for older adults and its scoring.
Source: Saint Louis University's Gateway Geriatric Educatioin Center & Aging Successfully, 2020.
The Eldercare Method Interdisciplinary Team Model
This PDF by Dr. Kelly O'Shea Carney, Executive Director of Phoebe Center for Excellence in Dementia Care, provides an overview of the Eldercare Method, an interdisciplinary behavioral health consultation model developed to foster the well being and highest level of function among frail elders within long-term care settings. The Eldercare Method utilizes a variety of tools and interventions that have been developed specifically to address the behavioral health needs of long term care residents.
Source: Phoebe Center for Excellence in Dementia Care, 2012.
Serious Illness Care Program COVID-19 Response Toolkit
Ariadne Labs’ Serious Illness Care Program developed a COVID-19 Response Toolkit to help patients have important conversations with people they trust within their support networks. Additionally, the Toolkit includes resources for health systems and clinicians to address the communications needs of patients in the community, hospital, and long-term care. Simulated video conversations for multiple settings are included. Translations are available in six different languages.
Source: Ariadne Labs, 2020.
Comfort Care at the End of Life (EOL) for COVID-19 Patients at Home
This webinar (47:23 minutes) given by Drs. Mariah Robertson, David S. Wu, and Corey Tapper from John Hopkins University discusses how to provide support to patients at home with COVID-19 through comfort care. It also identifies the most common symptoms associated with COVID-19 at the end of life. Finally, it discusses strategies for how to manage end of life symptoms for COVID+ patients at home.
Source: Johns Hopkins Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program, 2020.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/gec/
Prioritizing Advance Care Planning (ACP) in the time of COVID-19
This webinar (51:01 minutes) given by Drs. Mariah Robertson, David S. Wu, and Corey Tapper discusses advance care planning conversations to have with your primary care patients. It also discusses a feasible plan to address advance care planning with high risk patients in their own patient panel. Finally it reviews the process for appropriate advance directive documentation and billing.
Source: Johns Hopkins Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program, 2020.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/gec/
Quality of Life, Preventing Elder Abuse, and Fostering Living Well After a Dementia Diagnosis
This Proceedings of a Workshop--in Brief summarizes the key points made by participants during the public workshop hosted by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine's Committee on Developing a Behavioral and Social Science Research Agenda on Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias. The Advisory Panel consisted of people living with dementia and care partners of people living with dementia. Topics discussed include elder abuse, financial decision making and exploitation, and maximizing quality of life. The proceedings are free to download.
Understanding Nursing Home, Hospice, and Palliative Care for Individuals with Later-Stage Dementia
This Proceedings of a Workshop--in Brief summarizes the key points made by participants during a public workshop hosted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Committee on Developing a Behavioral and Social Science Research Agenda on Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias. Panel members discussed hospice and palliative care, age-friendly health systems, policy related to end-of-life care, post-acute and long-term care, and access to care in nursing homes. The proceedings are free to download.
Care Interventions for People Living With Dementia and Their Caregivers
This prepublication final report from the AHRQ reviews the evidence base for care interventions for people living with dementia and their caregivers, and assesses the potential for broad dissemination and implementation of that evidence. The full report is available as a PDF.
Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), 2020.
https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/
Interventions to Prevent Age-Related Cognitive Decline, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Clinical Alzheimer's-Type Dementia
The purpose of this review by the AHRQ is to assess the effectiveness of 13 interventions for preventing or delaying the onset of age-related cognitive decline, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), or clinical Alzheimer's-type dementia (CATD). The full report, executive summary, and disposition of comments are available as PDFs.
Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), 2017.
https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/