Connecting Care Through Telehealth: Long-Term Services and Supports
Connecting Care Through Telehealth is an online course designed to inform and improve best practices when using telehealth and virtual services in long-term services and supports (LTSS) settings. Informed by the Age-Friendly Health Systems 4Ms framework, content is tailored for providers and care-teams, residents/patients, and families and caregivers within skilled nursing facilities, assisted living communities, and home health and hospice organizations.
Maximizing Quality of Life across the Cognitive Continuum
This presentation (58:50 minutes) by Susan McCurry discusses how to maximize the quality of life across the cognitive continuum of care for older adults.
Listening to Learn- Whole Person Assessment
This presentation (44:46 minutes) by Kyle Page discusses the whole person assessment for older adults. Learning objectives: (1) list at least 2 ways our current assessment approach may hinder learning; (2) explain at least 2 needs from persons with dementia; and (3) summarize advantages of a strengths-based approach.
Source: Wyoming Center on Aging, 2022 Rocky Mountain Alzheimer's Summit (RMAS)
Assessing Decisional Capacity in Persons with Dementia
This presentation (1:02:09 minutes) by Kyle Page discusses how to assess decisional capacity in individuals with dementia. Learning objectives: (1) identify at least 2 influences on decision making in later life; (2) define the four suggested psycholegal components of decision making; and (3) describe at least 2 ways to support someone with dementia.
Source: Wyoming Center on Aging, 2022 Rocky Mountain Alzheimer's Summit (RMAS).
BOLD Dementia Care: Principles of Detection, Diagnosis, and Care
This presentation (1:12:45 minutes) by Soo Borson discusses the principles of detection, diagnosis, and care for individuals with dementia. Learning objectives: 1) what early detection of dementia means; 2) why it matters; and 3) how it can improve lifetime care.
Source: Wyoming Center on Aging, 2022 Rocky Mountain Alzheimer's Summit (RMAS)
Pharmacologic Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease: What’s New?
This presentation (58:36 minutes) by Tonja M. Woods discusses new pharmacologic treatments for Alzheimer's disease. Objectives: (1) identify current medications approved to treat Alzheimer’s Disease; (2) recognize nuances with newly approved aducanumab (Aduhelm) for the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease; and (3) consider all approved medications and their appropriate place in therapy for the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease.
Source: Wyoming Center on Aging, 2022 Rocky Mountain Alzheimers Summit
Managing the Financial Impacts of Caregiving
This presentation (59:20 minutes) by Amy Goyer discusses how to manage the financial impacts of caregiving.
Resources
This website provides a variety of resources created by the Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation. The Center’s mission is to bring the consumer experience to the forefront of health innovation in order to deliver better care, better value and better health for every community, particularly vulnerable and historically underserved populations.provides a variety of resources for individuals to review. Resources include blog posts, publications, comment letters, and news clips.
Hippocrates Cafe: Reflections on the Pandemic
Artists' reflections on the pandemic, hosted by Dr. Jon Hallberg and Dr. Renée Crichlow.
Art + Medicine explores healthcare through story, song and the arts. This series is a co-production of TPT-Twin Cities PBS and the Center for the Art of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School.
Source: Twin Cities PBS, 2020
https://www.tpt.org/art-medicine/video/hippocrates-cafe-reflections-on-the-pandemic-fw5jz0/
Art + Medicine: Speaking of Race
In this video, Drs. Jon Hallberg and Tseganesh Selameab connects the arts and healthcare through the power of storytelling. In this one-hour special, physicians share their experiences with race, racism, disparities in health care and representation, and anti-racist efforts in the medical community.
Art + Medicine explores healthcare through story, song and the arts. This series is a co-production of TPT-Twin Cities PBS and the Center for the Art of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School.
Source: Twin Cities PBS, 2022