Clinical Curriculum: Continuing professional development
These online, self-paced courses from the Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative are designed for anyone who provides emergency care to older people. The Delirium course provides an overview of best practicies in identification, prevention, evaluation, and both non-pharmacological and pharmacological management of older adults in the ED. The Falls and Safe Mobility course describes best practicies for the ED assessment and evaluation of older adults who have fallen, interventions to prevent future falls, and recommendations for post ED care.
Issue Brief: Creating Value with Age-Friendly Health Systems
This Issue Brief from the American Hospital Association's The Value Initiative highlights ways that age-friendly care’s 4Ms Framework and measures enable value, along with case examples and considerations for becoming an Age-Friendly Health System. This is part of a series of Issue Briefs framing the complex issue of affordability. These briefs can be used to initiate conversations with stakeholders in your community. Relevant resources are included at the end of the Issue Brief.
Source: American Hospital Association, 2020.
Conversation Guide for Patients and Caregivers for Identifying Their Health Priorities
This workbook for patients and caregivers is designed to make sure that their health care lines up with their priorities. The workbook helps the user to identify what is most important in their life, their health goals, and their health care preferences. Example scenarios and conversation tips are provided.
Source: Patient Priorities Care, 2018.
https://patientprioritiescare.org/
Serious Illness Care Program COVID-19 Response Toolkit
Ariadne Labs’ Serious Illness Care Program developed a COVID-19 Response Toolkit to help patients have important conversations with people they trust within their support networks. Additionally, the Toolkit includes resources for health systems and clinicians to address the communications needs of patients in the community, hospital, and long-term care. Simulated video conversations for multiple settings are included. Translations are available in six different languages.
Source: Ariadne Labs, 2020.
MY STORY form
MY STORY is a form that was developed by the Assisted Living Program of the Anne Arundel County Department of Aging and Disabilities to help families document personalized information about the needs and preferences of their loved one. Whether they live in an assisted living facility, nursing home, with a family caregiver, or in their own home, this form may follow a loved one to doctor’s appointments, hospital visits, and rehabilitation stays. An instructional video and guide for completing the form are available on the web page.
Training Modules of Partnerships to Improve Quality of Life for Persons with Dementia
Partnerships to Improve Care and Quality of Life for Persons with Dementia is a 12-part online training series on staff-family partnerships to improve dementia care. This provider-focused training, which complements the IGEC’s family caregiver-focused training, is available through the Csomay Center for Geronotological Excellence at the University of Iowa.
Comfort Care at the End of Life (EOL) for COVID-19 Patients at Home
This webinar (47:23 minutes) given by Drs. Mariah Robertson, David S. Wu, and Corey Tapper from John Hopkins University discusses how to provide support to patients at home with COVID-19 through comfort care. It also identifies the most common symptoms associated with COVID-19 at the end of life. Finally, it discusses strategies for how to manage end of life symptoms for COVID+ patients at home.
Source: Johns Hopkins Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program, 2020.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/gec/
Prioritizing Advance Care Planning (ACP) in the time of COVID-19
This webinar (51:01 minutes) given by Drs. Mariah Robertson, David S. Wu, and Corey Tapper discusses advance care planning conversations to have with your primary care patients. It also discusses a feasible plan to address advance care planning with high risk patients in their own patient panel. Finally it reviews the process for appropriate advance directive documentation and billing.
Source: Johns Hopkins Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program, 2020.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/gec/
George E. Thibault Nexus Award
George E. Thibault Nexus Award
The George E. Thibault Nexus Award celebrates exemplary interprofessional collaboration in the United States and those who are thinking and acting differently where practice and education connect in health systems.