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Screening Practices to Improve Patient and Family Engagement: 5 Ways Hospitals Prioritize Family Caregivers Who Need Extra Support

This paper is part of the AARP Supporting Family Caregivers Providing Complex Care series. It discusses different screening practices used to improve patient and family engagement. It also lists and describes five ways hospitals prioritize family caregivers who need extra support.

Pharmacy Innovations to Improve Patient and Family Engagement: 10 Ways Hospitals Help Family Caregivers Prepare to Manage Medications

This paper is part of the AARP Supporting Family Caregivers Providing Complex Care series. It discusses pharmacy innovations to improve patient and family engagement. It also lists and describes ten ways that hospitals can help family caregivers prepare to manage medications.

Approaches to Making Practice and System Changes to Improve Patient and Family Engagement: 12 Ways Hospitals Integrate Family Caregiver Support

This paper is part of the AARP Supporting Family Caregivers Providing Complex Care series. It discusses a variety of approaches to make practice and system changes to improve patient and family engagement. It also lists and discusses 12 ways hospitals can integrate family caregiver support.

Transitions in Care and Hospital Discharge Practices to Improve Patient and Family Engagement: 16 Ways to Prepare and Support Family Caregivers

This paper is part of the AARP Supporting Family Caregivers Providing Complex Care series. It discusses transitions in care and hospital discharge practices to improve patient and family engagement. It lists and describes 16 ways to prepare and support family caregivers.

Electronic Health Record (EHR) Practices to Improve Patient and Family Engagement: 9 Ways to Help Staff Access Data on Family Caregiver Discharge Preparation

This paper is part of the AARP Supporting Family Caregivers Providing Complex Care series. It discusses electronic health record (EHR) practices to improve patient and family engagement. It lists and describes nine ways to help staff access data on family caregiver discharge preparation.

Communication Practices to Improve Patient and Family Engagement: 10 Ways to Identify and Engage Family Caregivers in Hospitals

This paper is part of the AARP Supporting Family Caregivers Providing Complex Care series. It discusses a variety of communication practices to improve patient and family engagement. Ten ways to identify and engage family caregivers in hospitals are described.

Staff Training Practices to Improve Patient and Family Engagement: 16 Ways to Include Family Caregivers and Prevent Discharge Delays

This paper is part of the AARP Supporting Family Caregivers Providing Complex Care series. It discusses 16 ways to include family caregivers and prevent discharge delays. Health care systems use new approaches to make changes in care processes, standardize specific changes that fulfill CARE Act requirements, and ensure sustained and reinforced training. Highlighted practices from the ongoing national CARE Act implementation scan include the 16 activities listed in the brief.

Learning Resources and Practices to Improve Patient and Family Engagement: 12 Ways to Facilitate Family Caregiver Education in Hospitals

This paper is part of the AARP Supporting Family Caregivers Providing Complex Care series. It discusses 12 ways to facilitate family caregiver education in hospitals.

Healthcare Professionals Toolkit

This primary care toolkit from the National Osteoporosis Foundation aims to increase the identification, assessment, and treatment of patients who are at risk for fractures by physicians and other healthcare professionals in primary care practice. As the patient's "medical home," primary care is the ideal setting for implementing and overseeing these evidence-based fracture prevention strategies. The toolkit includes education on osteoporosis and fractures as well as fall risk assessments. 

SLU Rapid Geriatric Assessment (RGA)

The Rapid Geriatric Assessment (RGA) is a screening tool for primary care health providers developed by the Geriatrics Devision of Saint Louis University. The RGA includes assessment of frailty, nutrition, loss of muscle mass (sarcopenia), and cognitive function. For more information on using this free tool, email aging@slu.edu.

Source: Saint Louis University GWEP, 2016.