Medications Linked to Falls Fact Sheet
This fact sheet provides information on how medication management can reduce interactions and side effects that may lead to falls in older adults.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2017.
https://www.cdc.gov/
Case Study: Mrs. Parker
This case study on fall prevention depicts the STEADI approach with a high-risk patient who recently experienced a fall. The case study illustrates the assessment, identification of risk factors, and fall prevention recommendations.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2017.
https://www.cdc.gov/
Case Study: Mr. Ying
This case study on fall prevention depicts the STEADI approach with a medium-risk patient who has recently limited his outside activities. The case study illustrates the assessment, identification of risk factors, and fall prevention recommendations.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2017.
https://www.cdc.gov/
Case Study: Mrs. Booker
This case study on fall preventiondepicts the STEADI approach with a low-risk patient who has come in for a wellness check. The case study illustrates the assessment, identification of risk factors, and fall prevention recommendations.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2017.
https://www.cdc.gov/
Fall Risk Factors Checklist
This pocket guide for providers describes the CDC's STEADI algorithm for fall risk screening, assessment, and intervention for community-dwelling older adults.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2017.
https://www.cdc.gov/
Communicating with Older Adult Patients
This interactive online presentation is designed to help health care professionals and others understand how to communicate with older adults, including those with hearing and vision problems, and when a caregiver is present. Embedded videos and quiz questions are included.
Source: Florida State University College of Medicine, 2019.
https://med.fsu.edu/
Pain Assessment and Management for the RN/LPN
This online learning module helps RN's and LPN's learn how to assess and manage pain in older adults. The module is interactive and provides short quizzes to test your knowledge throughout the topics.
Source: Florida State University College of Medicine, 2019.
https://med.fsu.edu/
Talking About Goals of Care
This 8 minute video demonstrates and discusses communication techniques for providers to use when discussing advanced care planning with an older adult.
Source: The Geriatric Education Center of Pennsylvania, 2012.
https://www.med.upenn.edu/gec/
Mini-Cog Administration
This brief video provides a demonstration of how to administer and score the Mini-Cog Test to a patient. This test is used to assess a patient's cognition and memory.
Source: ACT on Alzheimer's, 2014.
https://actonalz.org/
Evaluation of Memory Complaints & Management of Dementia | Family Medicine | UCI School of Medicine
In this 5 minute video, Dr. Steven Tam discusses how to evaluate complaints of memory impairment. He also describes how to manage the evolution and progression of dementia.
Source: University of California Irvine School of Medicine, 2019.
https://www.familymed.uci.edu/geriatrics/GWEP/training-tools.asp