How to Use a Shower Chair
This video (3:33 min) created by Memory Care Home Solutions provides a tutorial on how to use a shower chair when a caregiver assists an individual with dementia or memory loss to bathe.
Care Partner Activity Kit
This care partner activity kit designed by Memory Care Home Solutions provides a variety of activities for individuals with dementia and their care partners to complete together. These activities are designed to help reduce anxiety and stress as well as other mood problems dementia patients may experience. Each activity includes instructions for how to complete it.
Memory Care Home Solutions Virtual Tour
This video (9:02 min) provides a virtual tour of a dementia friendly home used for caregiver training by Memory Care Home Solutions. Jill Cigliana, program director of Memory Care Home Solutions, discusses different ways for families to make their homes a more supportive and enjoyable place for people living with dementia to live. She also provides solutions that families can easily and affordably implement in their own homes.
Promoting medicare annual wellness visits
This module discusses the importance of promoting medicare annual wellness visits for older adults. This module aims to educate providers and clinical staff regarding the components, documentation, and benefits in providing Medicare Annual Wellness Visits to all eligible patients.
Sexuality, intimacy and dementia
Nursing home and assisted living center healthcare providers and nursing staff are challenged to address issues of intimacy, sexuality, and dementia regularly within those settings. This module discusses common misconceptions and approaches to appropriately met the needs of patients with dementia/Alzheimer's disease.
Advance care planning
This module discusses advance care planning that will assist the medical team in respecting the individual's wishes as he or she approaches the end of life. Upon completion of this module, participants should be able to: (1) identify the advanced directive document and how to complete them; (2) discuss challenges with completion of advance directives in those with different stages of cognitive impairments or who may be incapable of decision making; (3) review billing and coding for Advance Care Planning. Continuing education credits are available upon completion.
SPIKES: A 6-Step Protocol for Delivering Bad News
Delivering bad news to patients in inherently negative and can contribute to stress and anxiety for clinicians. This module presents a six-step protocol for health care providers to use when delivering bad news. Upon completion of this module, participants should be able to: (1) define "bad news" and how it relates to clinical outcomes; (2) identify barriers and strategies to disclosing “bad news”; and (3) apply the six-step protocol of disclosing information that adversely affects a patients' perception of their future and quality of life.
Precepting tips for geriatric depression
This tipsheet created by the Minnesota Northstar GWEP is designed for preceptors to use with students in practice settings. It provides a brief summary of the epidemiology, screening, assessment, and treatment of depression in primary care settings, and provides precepting tips to engage health professional students in learning how to assess depression and its impact in caregivers.
Announcing the new class of Macy Scholars
We are delighted to announce our new class of Macy Faculty Scholars!
Call for Papers- IP Pain Management: Educational Models and Exemplars Across the Learning and Practice Continuum
Pain education working groups from the National Academies’
Lauren Hagen
- Jul 21, 2021