Gerontology Resources for APRNs in Acute and Emergent Care Settings Toolkit
The goal of the Gerontology Resources for APRNs in Acute and Emergent Care Settings (2nd edition) toolkit (“Acute Care Resource Guide”) is to make geriatric and gerontological content easily accessible to those caring for older adults in higher-acuity care settings. It is designed with advance practice registered nurse (APRN) students, preceptors, clinicians, and educators in mind, and to provide a single portal to comprehensive resources.
Promoting Caregiving Across the Full Community: The Role for Public Health Strategists
This resource created by the CDC and Alzheimer's Association offers an overview of the challenges of caregiving for people living with dementia. It also provides state, local, and tribal public health leaders with a framework and resources for action regarding an initiative. Implementation of these 360-degree plans would ideally result in widespread availability and use of caregiver supports, improved service coordination, and a firm commitment to caregiving throughout healthcare systems, workplaces, and communities.
Care Planning in Early Alzheimer's Dementia
This lecture (1:41:26 minutes) by Karen Clay, ARNP, and Piruz Huda, MSW, LICSW, is part of the Northwest Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Center's 2021 Winter Lecture series, and discusses care planning in early Alzheimer's dementia. By the end of this lecture, learners should be able to: (1) provide support to and effectively communicate with persons with early-stage dementia; and (2) explore patient values and how they impact future care options and interventions.
Electronic Rapid Fitness Assessment (eRFA)
The electronic Rapid Fitness Assessment (eRFA) is a questionnaire developed at Memorial Sloan Kettering and used by doctors on the Geriatrics Service to gauge and understand an older patient’s level of fitness. Studies have shown that the fitness level of cancer patients may expose them to unnecessary risks, side effects, and complications.
Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment
This website from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center provides resources for completing a comprehensive geriatric assessment. Two videos are included: Administering the Timed Up and Go (TUG) and Administering the MiniCog. Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment is an evidenced-based, multidimensional evaluation that geriatricians and other health care providers use to determine functional age in older adults, guide future diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, determine reversible deficits and devise strategies to mitigate or eliminate such deficits.
Improving Wellness of Geriatric Patients During COVID-19
This webinar (57:27 minutes) given by interprofessional geriatric experts, Drs. Max Gakh, Ehab Fadhel, Se Won Lee, and Taka Yamashita, discusses how to maintain and improve the wellness of geriatric patients from various perspectives such as the importance of health literacy, handling maltreatment of the elderly, and tips for maintaining physical well-being and mental health of older adults through home exercise. (Presentation begins at 2:15 minutes).
Home Exercises for Older Adults
This webinar (56:55 minutes) given by Dr. Se Won Lee, Program Director, PM & R Residency Sunrise Graduate Medical Education Consortium, Mountain View Hospital, presents a home exercise program for older adults with chronic disease using a case-based approach and review practical home exercise program examples in healthy older adults.
Dementia Care During the COVID 19 Pandemic
In this webinar (1:01:42 minutes) given by interprofessional geriatric experts, Drs. Ji Yoo, Jason Flatt, and Aaron Ritter, Gloria Mandel, NP, and Ceci De Asis, RN, discuss dementia care during COVID-19.
Telemedicine Overview
This webinar (59:18 minutes) given by Ian Choe, MD, explains how telemedicine can benefit all three major stakeholders, i.e., providers, patients, and communities in the modern health care system. (Presentation begins at 7:10 minutes).
Long-Term Services and Supports Telehealth Toolkit
This toolkit developed by the Utah Geriatric Education Consortium provides helpful guidance, checklists, resources and best practices to optimize and support telehealth and other virtual services in the long-term services and supports (LTSS) settings, including long-term care (LTC) and assisted living facilities, home health services, and hospice care.
Source: Utah Geriatric Education Consortium, 2021.
https://utahgwep.org/