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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/

Sleep and Older Adults

This booklet by the National Institute of Aging discusses how older adults can get a good night's sleep. Topics include: 1) what happens during sleep; 2) the importance of sleep; 3) how aging changes your sleep; 4) ways to improve your sleep; and 5) types of sleep problems.

Source: National Institute on Aging, 2020.
https://www.nia.nih.gov/

Rational Approach to Preventative Care for Persons with Dementia

This lecture (1:14:47 minutes) by Dr. Amy Thomas, Research Fellow at VA Puget Sound Health Care System, is part of the Northwest Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Center's 2021 Winter Lecture Series. Dr. Thomas discusses a rational approach to preventative care for persons with dementia. By the end of this lecture, learners should be able to: (1) describe the prognoses of different types of dementia; (2) identify the time to benefit of common primary prevention treatments; and (3) discuss the advantages of patient-centered approaches to the care of individuals with dementia.

Rational Prescribing in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias

This lecture by Dr. Zachary Marcum, Assistant Professor at UW School of Pharmacy, is part of the Northwest Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Center's 2022 Spring Lecture series and iscusses prescribing in Alzheimer's Disease as well as related dementias. By the end of this lecture, learners should be able to: (1) identify high-risk medications in older adults with dementia; (2) describe strategies to reduce medication-related harm in older adults with dementia; and (3) suggest resources to colleagues, patients, and caregivers for safe medication use in older adults with dementia.