Dementia Friendly Toolkit
This toolkit webpage offered by the Center for Aging Research and Education (CARE) at the UW-Madison School of Nursing includes materials and videos to build communication and advocacy skills to respectfully engage people living with dementia. Students, health care or other professional staff, family caregivers, local groups, or local businesses can use the materials or videos to learn more about dementia or share information with others in their workplace or community. Topics include role playing, communication tips, family caregiver tips, and more.
Interprofessional competencies of students in a geriatric case competition
This article describes a valuable activity to teach health professions students – the interprofessional geriatric case competition. This program brought together students from multiple health professions to design and present a comprehensive care plan using a simulated complex geriatric patient case. Student participants demonstrated beginning skills in interprofessional collaboration based on the IPEC competencies.
COVID-19: Oral Health Resource Kit
The Oral Health Nursing Education and Practice (OHNEP) program developed the COVID-19: Oral Health Resource Kit for nursing and health professions educators to incorporate valuable interprofessional teaching resources in classroom and clinical simulation settings to demonstrate the connections between oral health and COVID-19. These resources include an unfolding case study, patient health literacy, a slide deck and a comprehensive COVID-19 and oral health resource list.
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.)