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Long-term care in America: Increasing access to care
This report from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research summarizes results from a survey conducted on telemedicine in adults age 40 and older. The results found that while telemedicine services may hold particular promise for older adults in need of long-term care, older Americans are concerned that it could result in lower-quality care.
Long-term caregiving: The true costs of caring for aging adults
This report from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research summarizes results from a survey of adults age 18 and over who have experience in providing long-term care. The survey found that as family and friends take on more of the responsibility of caring for the nation’s growing senior population, their own personal and professional lives often pay the price. This study summarizes the opportunity costs and health impacts on those who devote their time to providing long-term care.
Long-term care in America: Americans want to age at home
This report summarizes a survey conducted by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research on long-term care in America. The results found that in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic that was especially devastating for nursing homes, the vast majority of Americans want to age at home and want government action to help them do so. This report also discusses ways for government programs and insurance companies to help organize this care for the aging older adult population.
Global report on ageism
The WHO Global Report on Ageism outlines a framework for action to reduce ageism including specific recommendations for different actors (e.g. government, UN agencies, civil society organizations, private sector). It brings together the best available evidence on the nature and magnitude of ageism, its determinants and its impact. It outlines what strategies work to prevent and counter ageism, identifies gaps and proposes future lines of research to improve our understanding of ageism.
Does restructuring theory and clinical courses better prepare nursing students to manage residents with challenging behaviors in long-term care settings?
This article published in Gerontology & Geriatrics Education describes a study which explored whether enhancing and restructuring theoretical and clinical courses resulted in student nurses feeling better prepared to manage residents’ challenging behaviors and improve their levels of distress. The findings of this study indicated that students who felt less prepared experienced greater distress by residents’ behaviors than those who felt better prepared.
An innovative educational clinical experience promoting geriatric exercise
This article published in Gerontology & Geriatrics Education describes how formal educational training in physical activity promotion is relatively sparse throughout the medical education system. The authors describe an innovative clinical experience in physical activity directed at medical clinicians on a geriatrics rotation. The experience consists of a single 2 1/2 hour session, in which learners are partnered with geriatric patients engaged in a formal supervised exercise program. The learners are guided through an evidence-based exercise regimen tailored to functional status.
Students report more positive attitudes toward older adults following an interprofessional service-learning course
This article published in Gerontology & Geriatrics Education discusses a study which was aimed to assess undergraduate students’ perceptions of older adults over the semester in an interprofessional service-learning course that implemented a health promotion program called Bingocize® at community facilities for older adults. Students were surveyed at the beginning of the semester, at midterm, and at the conclusion of the course. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected to assess the students’ perceptions and experiences.
Introducing students to healthy aging within their own communities: An online applied research experience
This article published in Gerontology & Geriatrics Education discusses how engaging gerontology students in research that hits “close-to-home” can have lasting benefits for them and their communities both professionally and personally. Since 2016, cohorts of undergraduate/certificate students in an online applied research in aging course have explored healthy aging in their Massachusetts’ (MA) communities.
Posthospital home visit as teaching tool for internal medicine residents
This article published in Gerontology & Geriatrics Education discusses a curriculum which provides internal medicine residents with the opportunity to evaluate patients in their homes after they were discharged from the hospital to assess the alignment of the discharge plan with patients’ real-life circumstances. The study found that by visiting patients’ homes, medical residents were able to better assess patient needs, which highlighted the necessity for more individualized discharge plans with regard to in-home functioning, communication with caregivers, and medication reconciliation.
Developing a program to increase geropsychology competencies of Veterans Health Administration (VHA) psychologists
This article published in Gerontology & Geriatrics Education describes how health policy experts called for increasing geriatric mental health competencies for all mental health providers, including within Veterans Health Administration (VHA), to address the alarming supply and demand gap for geropsychology expertise within the United States. The VHA Geriatrics Scholar Program (GSP) Psychology Track was developed because there were no commercially available trainings in geropsychology for licensed psychologists.