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.
2024 Virtual Collaborative Change Leadership Program
February - December 2024 For program details visit https://collaborativechangeleadership.ca/ Program sponsored by University Health Network & Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare & Education (CACHE) Apply by Nov. 30, 2023 Engaging teams in compassionate & meaningful ways to co-create and sustain system change.
Organization Models of Interprofessional Practice and Education in the United States
Background
In 2019, the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative (AIHC) and the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education (National Center) charged the Interprofessional Education Organizational Models Task Force to study the organizational models and structures of US IPE programs using a mixed methodology of quantitative survey and qualitative analysis.
A Guide to Alzheimer's Caregiving
This web page from the Caregiving Resource Center provides a step by step process for family members to follow when caring for persons with Alzheimer's disease. It discusses the various health professionals and other people involved in the caring process that caregivers may encounter. Finally, it provides tips to get organized after a loved one has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
Source: Caring.com, 2021.
https://www.caring.com/caregivers/
