Benefits of Creative Arts for Persons with Dementia and Their Caregivers
This presentation from the Utah Geriatric Education Consortium is given by Dr. Jackie Eaton, (University of Utah College of Nursing) who disusses the benefits of creative arts for people living with dementia. By the end of this lecture, learners should be able to: (1) identify the benefits of creative arts for persons with dementia and their caregivers, and (2) practice art-based techniques.
Source: Utah Geriatric Education Consortium, 2020
Life in Balance: Decreasing Fall Risk with Balance Training
This presentation from the Utah Geriatric Education Consortium is given by Dr. James Ballard (University of Utah) who discusses the role of balance training to decrease fall risk in older adults. By the end of this presentation, learners should be able to demonstrate an understanding of how exercise interventions related to improving balance can decrease fall risk in older adults.
Source: Utah Geriatric Education Consortium, 2021
https://utahgwep.org/trainings/age-friendly-ltss-echo
National Resource Center on LGBT Aging
The National Resource Center on LGBT Aging is the country's first and only technical assistance resource aimed at improving the quality of services and supports offered to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender older adults. This web page offers publications, videos, articles, trainings, guides and more, and is intended for use by the general public as well as health care providers. The resource center is updated frequently with resources that span a variety of LGBT aging topics.
Source: Services & Advocacy for LGBT Elders (SAGE), 2023.
LGBT Aging Facts
This webpage from SAGE (Services & Advocacy for LGBT Elders) links to a fact sheet about LGBT and aging. It covers the topics of caregiving, cultural competency, discrimination, health care, HIV/AIDS, housing, legal and financial, LGBT aging, social isolation, and wellness. The fact sheet is available in English and Spanish.
Source: Services & Advocacy for LGBT Elders (SAGE), 2023.
https://www.sageusa.org/
Hearing- and Vision-Related Practical Strategies for Clinical Research With Older Adults During COVID-19 Pandemic
This GSA webinar (1:00:33 minutes) presented by Dr. Heather E. Whitson (Duke University School of Medicine), Dr. Nicholas S. Reed (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), Dr. Bonnielin Swenor (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine), Dr. Frank R. Lin (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), and Dr. Alan Stevens (Baylor Scott & White Center for Applied Health Research) offers practical strategies and supporting case studies to help health-system researchers address older adults' sensory health needs, while advancing their research aims during the time of the pandemic.
Aging Native American, Rural, and Homeless Populations: Engagement and Advocacy During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This GSA webinar (1:00:24 minutes) presented by community and public health leaders and advocates in a facilitated problem-identification and problem-solving discourse about aging Native American, rural, and homeless populations with regard to challenges and effectiveness of responses to COVID-19. Presentations include: 1) Resilience: The Key to the Survival of the Nebraska Urban Indian Health Community (Dr.
Longevity Fitness: Financial and Health Dimensions Across the Life Course
Transitions commonly associated with advancing age - work disruptions, physical decline, dementia - can be better managed when a person has planned for the social support, financial means, and health resources needed to compensate for aging-related physical and cognitive changes. In this GSA webinar (59:58 minutes), Dr. Peter A. Lichtenberg (Wayne State University) and Dr. Mary D. Naylor (University of Pennsylvania) exchange ideas about the concept of longevity fitness and insights into positive aging across the life course. (Presentation begins at 1:23 minutes.)
Reframing Aging: A Primer for Health Care Professionals
This GSA webinar (1:00:45 minutes) presented by Dr. Patricia M. D'Antonio (Reframing Aging Initiative), Dr. Helen Fernandez (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai), and Dr. Moira O'Neill (FrameWorks Institute) highlights the importance that words matter in how society thinks and talks about aging. The webinar covers four ideas to keep in mind when talking about older people and health equity in health care settings during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Presentation begins at 7:07 minutes.)
Source: Gerontological Society of America, 2020.
Understanding the Value of Enhanced Influenza Vaccine Products in Long-Term Care Settings
This GSA webinar (49:16 minutes) presented by Dr. R. Gordon Douglas (Weill Cornell Medical College), Dr. David H. Canaday (Case Western Reserve University), Dr. Sherry A. Greenberg (Seton Hall University College of Nursing), and Dr.
Sensory Functioning and the Remote Assessment of Biological and Performance Measures in the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP)
This GSA webinar (1:00:34 minutes) presented by Dr. Jayant Pinto, Dr. Martha K. McClintock, Dr. L. Philip Schumm, and Dr. Louise Hawkley (all from the University of Chicago) describes how data from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) - a longitudinal population-based study of health and social factors that aims to understand the well-being of older, community dwelling Americans - have been used to examine the role of specific and global sensory deficits in predicting aging health outcomes such as cognitive decline and mortality.