Safety Tips for Older Drivers
This tip sheet from AGS's Health in Aging Foundation provides tips and resources that can help older drivers take essential steps to maintain driving safety. It also discusses new vehicle technologies and how they play into safe driving in the elderly.
Source: Health in Aging Foundation, 2019.
https://www.healthinaging.org/tools-and-tips
Dorothy as the Prototype in Looking at Client Expectations; Quality of Life and Function
This teaching strategy looks at raising the awareness of client expectations and at how the nurse can work with the client in addressing these expectations to ultimately maintain the best possible quality of life. Learning objectives, learner pre-work, suggested learning activities and readings, and other materials are included. Files are downloadable/printable. This resource is only available for members.
Source: National League for Nursing (NLN), 2018.
Caring for the Older Adult Living in the Community
This teaching strategy can be used to enhance the learning of students in beginning prelicensure nursing courses. Students will examine older adults' functional, physical, emotional, and mental health needs using the ACE.S framework. In addition, students will use therapeutic communication skills to assess older adults' wishes, expectations, cultural traditions, strengths, community resources, and family/caregiver involvement. Learning objectives, suggested learning activities and readings, and other materials are included. Files are downloadable/printable.
Assessment of Older Adults in Long-Term Care
This teaching strategy focuses on assessment in long-term care clinical settings, and can be used with students in both beginning and advanced nursing courses. Since it is beneficial for learning to assign students to long-term care settings for several weeks, the teaching strategy provides learning activities for a six-week experience. Learning objectives, learner pre-work, suggested learning activities and readings, and assessment tools are included. All files are downloadable/printable. This resource is only available for members.
Examining Risks and Benefits to Enhance Quality of Life
These teaching strategies serve two purposes. First, they are designed to help students feel more comfortable initiating conversations with older adults about risks they may be willing to take to achieve benefits that may improve quality of life. They are also meant to raise awareness of decisions older adults make which may be unconventional within the context of a best practices model, yet are consistent with the older person's wishes, expectations, resources, cultural traditions, and strengths.
Sexuality and the Older Adult
This teaching strategy is designed to increase the comfort level of the student to routinely include an integration of sexuality assessment in the plan of care of older adults. This teaching strategy can be used for the pre-licensure nursing student or to address the complexity of the issue for current nurses achieving further degrees. Learning objectives, learner pre-work, suggested learning activities and readings, and other materials are included. Files are downloadable/printable. This resource is only available for members.
National Survey of Area Agencies on Aging 2020 Report and Toolkit
The National Survey of Area Agencies on Aging 2020 Report and Toolkit describes the findings of the survey. This data is essential for analyzing policy issues, benchmarking services, supporting requests for funding, preparing local issue briefs, speaking with funders or legislators and more. In addition to the report, the National Survey Report Toolkit includes a "fast facts" sheet, a data brief, key findings in customizable PowerPoint, newsletter articles and social media posts on the survey findings, and state reports.
Tips for Avoiding Caregiver Burnout
This tip sheet from the AGS's Health in Aging Foundation discusses tips to avoid caregiver burnout. It also describes resources that can provide the help a caregiver might need.
Source: Health in Aging, 2019.
https://www.healthinaging.org/tools-and-tips/tip-sheet-avoiding-caregiver-burnout
Testing Driver Safety
This tip sheet from AGS's Health in Aging Foundation provides actions to take if an older adult feels they are having difficulty driving safely. It also provides links to resources for safe driving in older adults.
Source: Health in Aging, 2019.
10 Tips for Aging Well
This tip sheet from AGS's Health in Aging Foundation provides ten tips for how to age well. Each tip includes a description along with specific recommendations.
Source: Health in Aging, 2019.
https://www.healthinaging.org/tools-and-tips/tip-sheet-ten-top-tips-aging-well