Third Annual Re-envisioning Elder Care Conference
The Third Annual Re-envisioning Elder Care Conference was held on September 9, 2022 by the Florida Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Programs at Florida State and Nova Southeastern Universities. This joint conference explored a number of timely issues impacting the care of older adults. Our discussions focused on topics ranging from strengthening the eldercare workforce, newer financing initiatives to supplement Medicare, ensuring diversity and equity in long-term care, and a review of the newly released report on “National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality.”
Mobility in Older Adults
Staying active is an important piece of staying healthy. Learn more about how to maintain mobility and prevent falls so that you can stay active. This webpage provides links to downloadable PDFs of the following fact sheets:
-Maintaining Safe Mobility (English and Spanish)
-Preventing Falls: Tips for Older Adults and Caregivers
-Health In Aging’s tip sheet on walking
-Cane vs. Walker: What’s Better for Me?
-Preventing eye diseases as you get older
Medications in Older Persons
If medications are necessary, this M focuses on using age-friendly medications that do not affect a person’s care goals, their mobility, and their mentation. Many older adults are on 5 or more prescription medications. This can be difficult to manage, expensive, and increases the risk of harmful side effects or drug interactions. It is important for providers to be aware of polypharmacy, or more medications than are clinically necessary, for their older patients.
UPSLIDE Friends Connection Guide
Utilizing and Promoting Social Engagement for Loneliness, Isolation, & Depression in the Elderly (UPSLIDE) is a Tallahassee Senior Center program that has won two awards for its work in helping adults age 50 and older become and stay socially engaged. UPSLIDE hosts Friends Connection chat groups which provide a welcoming community of support and social interaction in a fun, relaxed and creative environment. UPSLIDE also offers assessment visits, individual counseling, social engagement support, transportation, technology & resource assistance.
Flip The Script on Pain
Flip the Script aims to empower people, especially older adults, to speak up about pain. By learning more about pain and how to manage it, patients and families can stay hopeful and feel confident in working with their health care team to develop a plan for the best relief.
Dementia Resource Team
The Dementia Resource Team is part of the patient-centered care pillar under Dartmouth Health's Geriatric Center of Excellence (GCOE). The GCOE is committed to delivering world-class, person-centered care to older adults across northern New England and creating an age-friendly health system. The Dementia Resource Team offers a suite of free programs and services offered in-person and virtually. This webite included contact information, a calendar of events, links to resources, and videos, workshops.
NIHAN Geriatric Seminar Series
NIHAN’s Geriatric Seminar Series provides free health care education and resources to the geriatric community, by presenting topics related to the 4M’s, an age-friendly health care framework—What Matters, Medication, Mobility, and Mentation. The goal of the 15-session NIHAN Geriatric Series is to foster healthy aging for old adults, in order to create a more healthy and age-friendly geriatric community in Nevada.
The topics covered include:
Hearing Loss in Aging
Hospice and Palliative Care Medicine
NIHAN Geriatric Seminar: Hospice and Palliative Medicine
NIHAN’s Geriatric Seminar Series provides free health care education and resources to the geriatric community, by presenting topics related to the 4M’s, an age-friendly health care framework—What Matters, Medication, Mobility, and Mentation. The goal of the 15-session NIHAN Geriatric Series is to foster healthy aging for old adults, in order to create a more healthy and age-friendly geriatric community in Nevada.
NIHAN Geriatric Seminar: Safe Home Environment & Home Health Services
NIHAN’s Geriatric Seminar Series provides free health care education and resources to the geriatric community, by presenting topics related to the 4M’s, an age-friendly health care framework—What Matters, Medication, Mobility, and Mentation. The goal of the 15-session NIHAN Geriatric Series is to foster healthy aging for old adults, in order to create a more healthy and age-friendly geriatric community in Nevada.
NIHAN Geriatric Seminar: Advance Care Planning
NIHAN’s Geriatric Seminar Series provides free health care education and resources to the geriatric community, by presenting topics related to the 4M’s, an age-friendly health care framework—What Matters, Medication, Mobility, and Mentation. The goal of the 15-session NIHAN Geriatric Series is to foster healthy aging for old adults, in order to create a more healthy and age-friendly geriatric community in Nevada.
The seminar covers Advance Care Planning with three objectives for particpants: