Training Modules of Partnerships to Improve Quality of Life for Persons with Dementia
Partnerships to Improve Care and Quality of Life for Persons with Dementia is a 12-part online training series on staff-family partnerships to improve dementia care. This provider-focused training, which complements the IGEC’s family caregiver-focused training, is available through the Csomay Center for Geronotological Excellence at the University of Iowa.
Comfort Care at the End of Life (EOL) for COVID-19 Patients at Home
This webinar (47:23 minutes) given by Drs. Mariah Robertson, David S. Wu, and Corey Tapper from John Hopkins University discusses how to provide support to patients at home with COVID-19 through comfort care. It also identifies the most common symptoms associated with COVID-19 at the end of life. Finally, it discusses strategies for how to manage end of life symptoms for COVID+ patients at home.
Source: Johns Hopkins Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program, 2020.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/gec/
Prioritizing Advance Care Planning (ACP) in the time of COVID-19
This webinar (51:01 minutes) given by Drs. Mariah Robertson, David S. Wu, and Corey Tapper discusses advance care planning conversations to have with your primary care patients. It also discusses a feasible plan to address advance care planning with high risk patients in their own patient panel. Finally it reviews the process for appropriate advance directive documentation and billing.
Source: Johns Hopkins Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program, 2020.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/gec/
George E. Thibault Nexus Award
George E. Thibault Nexus Award
The George E. Thibault Nexus Award celebrates exemplary interprofessional collaboration in the United States and those who are thinking and acting differently where practice and education connect in health systems.
Non-opioid Pharmacological and Non-pharmacological Pain Management Techniques
This interprofessional training program on Opioid Use in Long-Term Care Series from the Utah Geriatric Education Consortium is for students, health care providers, and long-term care staff.
Frailty: Concepts and Applications for the Long-Term Care Resident
This presentation (59:46 mins) by Dr. Kristin Hueftle, from the University of Utah's Division of Geriatric Medicine discusses frailty, toolkits to assess frailty, how to apply frailty assessments to nursing home residents, risk stratification for surgical interventions, and various frailty interventions, and frailty is modifiable. The presentation begins approximately at 2 minutes into the video.
Source: Utah Geriatric Education Consortium: Age-Friendly ECHO, 2020.
Dementia Training
This online educational program from the Utah Geriatric Education Consortium is designed to increase knowledge about Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) and improve care of residents with dementia. The training iprogram consists of four modules that, in total, will take 2-3 hours to complete. The topics covered include: an overview of dementia, understanding behaviors and your approach, effective communication within long-term care, and communication and understanding behaviors.
Grief and Loss
This web page from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization provides an overview of dealing with grief and loss. Through different sections and videos, this web page discusses grief support and helpful resources as well as describing the grief experience.
Caregiving
This web page from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization provides an overview of caregiving. There are various sections within the web page that help readers grasp a better understanding of caregiving. The different sections include: Information about the Coronavirus (COVID-19); Caring for Children; Caring for the Caregiver; Helpful Services; Preparing for Giving Care; Providing Care. A Covid-19 shared decision-making tool developed by the NHPCO is included which is available in English and Spanish versions