Home Safety and Dementia
This web page from AARP describes safety tips for caregivers who worry about an older family member with dementia leaving the house. The web page is available in English and Spanish.
Source: AARP, 2017.
https://www.aarp.org/caregiving/
Keeping Your Home Healthy Before, During and After Caregiver Visits
This web page from AARP includes expert advice for those living at home who require the assistance of home health aides and other caregivers on how to stay healthy before, during and afer in-home visits. Tips for disinfecting, distancing, deliveries and more are provided. The web page is available in English and Spanish.
Source: AARP, 2020.
https://www.aarp.org/caregiving/
Dementia Care: Helping Your Loved One Stay Connected and Safe
This web page from AARP provides tips for meeting the unique challenges of caring for someone with Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia. Tips include clarifying the diagnosis, focusing on finances, making a plan, addressing safety concerns, and caring for yourself. The web page is available in English and Spanish.
Source: AARP, 2023.
https://www.aarp.org/caregiving/
Age-Friendly Care
This web page from The John A. Hartford Foundation centers on the elements of age-friendly care and how health systems can provide this type of care. The 4Ms of age-friendly care are described, and a guide to talk to your health care providers about the 4Ms is included.
Source: The John A. Hartford Foundation.
https://www.johnahartford.org/
PREPARE for Your Care
The PREPARE for Your Care program, a public health awareness campaign led by a coalition of national and state health care leaders, aims to help people make plans in the event of illness. The goal of the campaign is to inspire people to make a hospital go bag, choose a medical decision maker, and talk to family about health care wishes. The program includes video stories and provides guidance for filling out an advance directive. COVID-19 resources are included. Content is available in English and Spanish.
Source: PREPARE for Your Care, 2023.
Being Prepared in the Time of COVID-19
This guide from The Conversation Project, an intitiative of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, provides three important steps to take to be prepared in the time of COVID-19. Topics discussed include choosing a health care decision maker, talking about what matters to you, and thinking about what you would want if you become seriously ill with COVID-19.
Source: The Conversation Project and Ariadne Labs, 2020.
https://theconversationproject.org/covid19/
The Conversation Starter Kit
This Conversation Starter Kit from the The Conversation Project, an intitative of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, aims to help people share their wishes for end-of-life care with their loved ones. The Starter Kit's four steps guide the conversation and how to complete legal documents that reflect an individual's wishes.
Source: The Conversation Project, 2021.
https://theconversationproject.org/get-started
Best Practices for the Care of Older Adults
This web page from the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing contains two best practice guidelines to promote healthy aging: Best Practices and Resources for the (1) Primary Care of the Older Adult and (2) Care of the Older Adult with Chronic Disease. The guidelines were developed and recently updated by experts in the field of healthy aging and are designed to inform curriculum and training for interprofessional health care providers of older adults in the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Region. Guidelines are available in English and Spanish.
Who Will Speak For You? How to choose and be a health care proxy
This guide from The Conversation Project, an initiative of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, aims to help people choose and prepare a health care proxy. Information and resources for health care proxies are included.
Source: Institute for Healthcare Improvement & The Conversation Project, 2021.
https://theconversationproject.org/get-started
Your Conversation Starter Kit For Families and Loved Ones of People with Alzheimer's Disease or Other Forms of Dementia
This Conversation Starter Kit from The Conversation Project, an initiative of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, is designed to help families and loved ones of people with Alzheimer's disease or dementia begin the conversation about how they want to live at the end of their life. This guide will help yfamily members begin these talks in the early stages of decline, and it includes ways to use the Starter Kit on your loved one's behalf in the later stages.
Source: Institute for Healthcare Improvement & The Conversation Project, 2023.