Driving and the Older Adult
This handout discusses factors to consider when evaluating an older driver, interventions to improve driving ability, and approaches when driving should stop. It also describes legal implications for clinicians.
Discussing Cognitive Aging with Patients and Families
This handout defines cognitive aging, describes assessment instruments,and tips for promoting cognitive health and how to discuss the topic of cognitive health with patients and their families.
Differentiating Palliative Care and Hospice Care
This handout discusses how to differentiate between the need for palliative care versus hospice care in patients with a severe life-limiting illness.
Diarrhea and Fecal Incontinence
This handout reviews the diagnostic evaluation, treatment, and causes for diarrhea and fecal incontinence in older adults.
Diabetes- Special Considerations for Older Adults
This handout discusses goals of older adult diabetics such as maintaining glycemic pressure and blood pressure. It also reviews the use of statins and aspirin for cardioprotection.
Depression in Older Adults- Pharmacotherapy
This handout reviews both prescription drugs and non-prescription supplements that have been used to treat depression in older adults. It also highlights medications associated with depression and antidepressants that should be avoided.
Depression in Older Adults
This handout reviews the process of screening, diagnosis, and treatment of depression in older adults. It also discusses special considerations to consider such as bereavement and suicide.
Dementia Don't Forget
This handout discusses the fact that the diagnosis of dementia is often missed, and it provides different approaches to improve this diagnosis.
Decreasing Polypharmacy: The Art of Deprescribing
This handout discusses problems with polypharmacy, and provides recommendations for how clinicians should discuss the process of deprescribing medications to their patients.
Getting Started with Interprofessional Practice and Education in Community-Based Settings
In this Journal of Nursing Education editorial, Barbara Brandt and Amy Barton describe the impact of the National Center's "Accelerating Interprofessional Community-Based Education and Practice" Initiative and the implementation across 16 schools of nursing in the Unites States, each partnering with a community-based organization to further interprofessional initiatives designed around the needs of the patient, family, and community.
