Alzheimers' Disease and Related Dementias
This NIA website provides information on Alzheimers and related dementias, with links to learn more about the disease, symptoms and diagnosis, treatment, caregiving, living with dementia, resources for professionals, and dementia research and clinical trials along with recent articles.
Source: National Institue on Aging (NIA), 2020.
https://www.nia.nih.gov/
The Gerontologist Podcast
The Gerontologist Podcast hosted by Howard B. Degeholtz, PhD, FGSA, Social Media Editor of The Gerontologist, includes a series of interviews with authors of research articles published in journal related to care of older adults. Topics include driving cessation and transportation needs, care conferences in nursing homes, robotic pets in dementia care, mindfulness interventions for dementia caregivers, use of cannabis among older adults, and homeless for the first time.
Source: Gerontological Society of America (GS), 2020.
Gerontology Competencies for Undergraduate and Graduate Education
This AGHE document outlines competencies in three broad categories related to the undergraduate and graduate education in gerontology and geriatric care. Each competency identifies skills that can be applied to gerontology education programs within majors, minors, and certificate programs.
Source: The Gerontological Society of America, 2020.
https://www.geron.org/programs-services/education-center/resources
Taking it Statewide: Online IPE and Assessment in a Pandemic
This webinar is part of the Connecting at the Nexus: COVID-19 Edition Webinar series.
CLE Innovation Challenge Summary- Nexus Summit 2019
A partnership between the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, the National Collaborative on Improving the Clinical Learning Environment (NCICLE), and SmithGroup, the 2019 Clincial Learning Environment Innovation Challenge was a dynamic, team-based, design thinking experience at the Nexus Summit 2019.
IHS National COVID-19 Critical Care Response Team- Sources Sought Posted Responses Due 4/21/2020
In the past few months, there has been a lot of need to get support to the Indian Health Service, in new and innovative ways. One opportunity coming up in case you didn’t see this yet, the Sources Sought Notice/Request for Information has been posted. The link to the notice is as follows: https://beta.sam.gov/opp/a8c76946dcc44788a9778c400c19b1f3/view.
Interdisciplinary Curriculum for Oncology Palliative Education (iCOPE)
The Interdisciplinary Curriculum for Oncology Palliative Education (iCOPE) is the result of a grant to the University of Louisville to design, implement and evaluate an innovative, integrated, and interprofessional oncology palliative care curriculum for medical, nursing, social work and chaplaincy students. The project was funded by the National Cancer Institute R-25 mechanism in 2010 for 5 years and is ongoing mandatory curriculum for all medical students, nursing students, social work students in health care and chaplaincy residents at the University.
The curriculum
Conversations in IPE: The Impact of COVID-19
The Texas IPE Consortium is here to support our members through this unprecedented time in healthcare education. We invite interested participants to discuss issues that are impacting, and will continue to impact, IPE at our institutions. Together we will discuss and share: