Building and Sustaining Effective Behavioral Health Care for Older Adults: Strategies and Considerations
The toolkit highlights key engagement and sustainability strategies that will help advance efforts to improve behavioral health outcomes among older adults.
Utilizing Cross-Sector Partnerships to Reduce Behavioral Health Disparities in Older Adults
This toolkit describes the landscape of resources that influence older adults and their behavioral health needs and to provide meaningful guidance for partnering across sectors to improve outcomes for diverse older adults.
Older Adult Issues for 988 and Crisis Call Centers
The introduction of the new 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline allows for a number that is easy to remember and easy to dial. As such, it is expected that calls will continue to increase, including calls by older adults and their family caregivers.
Thus, call center staff must be prepared to understand and meet the needs of older adult callers.
Modules available online:
Foundational Competencies in Older Adult Mental Health Certificate Program (Online)
The growing population of older adults presents a unique opportunity for mental health professionals to expand clinical practice and experience deeply meaningful clinical work.
E4 Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health Disparities in Aging
The mission of the E4 Center is to engage, empower, and educate health care providers and community-based organizations for equity in behavioral health for older adults and their families. E4 will achieve this through the provision of education, implementation resources, and technical assistance regarding mental health, substance use, and their intersection with physical health.
Interprofessional Faculty Development Cohort VIII- A Microcredential
The purpose of Interprofessional Practice Education (IPE) is to prepare health profession students for interprofessional practice by teaching collaborative practice competencies within the context of interprofessional teams. All health professions now require the integration of IPE into their curricula. Faculty and preceptors must be prepared to integrate the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for effective collaborative practice into the curricula of both the pre-clinical and clinical years of training.
Read the new blog: Reiterating the importance of patients as a critical success factor in the nexus
https://nexusipe.org/blog-critical-success-factors-include-patient
Age-Friendly Minnesota Needs Assessment Survey
This survey was developed as a resource to Minnesota communities undertaking needs assessments as part of their age-friendly efforts. The survey is organized into nine sections (eight topics related to age-friendly communities, plus demographics) and 44 questions, plus one open-ended question at the end of each section for respondents to free-write comments if they choose.
Source: Age-Friendly Minnesota, 2023. https://www.agefriendlymn.org/
