Feeding and Nutrition (for dementia)
This tipsheet provides caregivers with advice on how to approach mealtime when caring for a person with dementia. Nutritional considerations are discussed. An online and printer-friendly version are available.
Source: Family Caregiver Alliance, 2017.
https://www.caregiver.org/
Caregiver Training Part I: Aggressive Language and Behavior
This segment (4:43 minutes) of the UCLA Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Video series discusses aggressive language and behavior that may occur when caring for an older adult. It provides a scenario depicting what this may look like when a caregiver encounters an aggressive language and behavior situation. It also discusses common caregiver responses along with an expert explanation of why this happens, and how to change the caregiver's response to this situation. English and Spanish versions are available.
Source: UCLA Health, 2018.
Assessing Pain in Dementia
This handout describes how pain can be assessed in older adults with varying stages of dementia. It also discusses how to handle challenging behaviors in dementia patients. Finally, it provides a table with information regarding the various signs of pain in people with advanced dementia.
Choosing the Correct Walker
This handout reviews the various types of walkers including the standard walker, the two-wheeled (rolling) walker, and the four-wheeled walker. It also discusses how to decide which type of walker is the best fit for an individual older adult patient.
Urinary Tract Infections in Long-Term Care
This handout provides information regarding the diagnosis and treatment of urinary tract infections in long-term care residents without a catheter. It highlights how asymptomatic bacteriuria can be misinterpreted as a UTI and describes the appropriate treatment response.
Urinary Incontinence- Treatment
This handout provides an overview of the treatments available for urge and stress incontinence, and provides tips for treating urinary incontinence in older adults.
Urinary Incontinence- Diagnosis
This handout discusses potentially reversible causes of urinary incontinence along with how to distinguish urge from stress incontinence. Brief screening questions are provided to use in the assessment of urinary incontinence.
Suicide Prevention for Older Adults
This handout reviews risk factors and warning signs of suicide in older adults. It also provides preventitive steps clinicians can take to prevent suicide in their older adult patients.
Substance Abuse in Older Adults
This handout reviews the detection of a substance abuse disorder including screening tests for alcohol abuse in older adults, and discusses treatments including psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy, and medication withdrawal.
Spiritual Needs of Hospitalized Older Adults
This handout defines religion, religiosity, and spirituality, including the subdimensions of spirtuality. It also provides examples of questions to assess sppirtual needs in each subdimension of spirtuality, and provides a case example of a spirtual evaluation and care plan for an older hospitalized patient.