Improving Communication with People Who Have Hearing Loss
This handout reviews how to communicate with individuals who have a hearing loss. It discusses effective and ineffective communication methods.
Improving Communication with Older Patients
This handout discusses appropriate ways to communicate with older patients in a clinical setting. Approaches to help patients' understanding while avoiding ageism are emphasized.
Communicating with Patients who have Dementia
This handout reviews ways to communicate with patients who have dementia.
Chronic Urinary Catheters- Troubleshooting Blockage
This handout identifies reasons why urinary catheters become blocked, and provides approaches to evaluate and manage patients with catheter blockage.
Chronic Kidney Disease in Older Adults
This handout discusses the assessment kidney function in older adults. It also identifies various issues related to care of older adults with chronic kidney disease.
Anxiety in Older Adults- Pharmacotherapy
This handout discusses how to manage anxiety symptoms in older adults through pharmacotherapy. Useful tables on conditions and medications that are cause anxiety, risks of long-term benzodiazepinertain therapy, and anti-anxiety medications with geriatric considerations are included.
Ageism
This handout defines and identifies the prevalance of ageism. It also provides steps clinicians can take to reduce ageism among themselves, their communities, and their patients.
Dementia: Not All Dementia is Alzheimer's Disease
This handout describes the different types of dementia outside of Alzheimer's disease, and how to care for older adults with these various dementias.
Source: Arizona Center on Aging, 2025
https://aging.arizona.edu/education-training/care-partner-information-sheets
What YOU Can Do to Prevent Falls
This CDC pamphlet from the STEADI program informs older adults of four steps they can take to prevent falls.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2017.
https://www.cdc.gov/
Ten Top Tips for Aging Well
This tip sheet provided by the American Geriatrics Society's Health in Aging Foundation discusses a list of ten tips for aging well. These tips vary from topics in nutrition to exercising,. The tipsheet provide a useful handout for patient education.
Source: Health in Aging Foundation, 2019.
https://www.healthinaging.org/tools-and-tips/tip-sheet-ten-top-tips-aging-well