A Guide to Alzheimer's Caregiving
This web page from the Caregiving Resource Center provides a step by step process for family members to follow when caring for persons with Alzheimer's disease. It discusses the various health professionals and other people involved in the caring process that caregivers may encounter. Finally, it provides tips to get organized after a loved one has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
Source: Caring.com, 2021.
https://www.caring.com/caregivers/
Using the Emma Stracener Case Study to Examine Technology Support Options for Caregivers of Older Adults
This teaching strategy from the National League of Nursing's Advancing Care Excellence for Caregivers series uses a case study approach to engage students to think through a complex situation involving an older adult who is starting to decline and a concerned family member who is becoming a caregiver. The use of technology to assist the aging adult to live safely at home, commonly referred to as aging in place, is emphasized. Learning objectives, learner pre-work, and suggested learning activities and readings are included. Files are downloadable/printable.
University of Virginia
The T3 Train-the-Trainer Interprofessional Team Development Program at The University of Virginia (UVA):
Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities Interprofessional Oral Health Clinical Experience Guide
OHNEP's new Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities Interprofessional Oral Health Clinical Experience Guide brings students from different health professions together for a team-building clinical rotation where they learn to more effectively provide whole-person care for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). This guide is a model used by NYU College of Dentistry and NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing for Dental (DDS) Students and Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP) students.
Nursing Education 2023
31st International Conference on Nursing Education & Research 31st International Conference on Nursing Education & Research welcomes you for this time in Rome, Italy during September 13-14, 2023. The main theme of our conference is “Good Outcomes from Nursing Research and Technological Advancements in Nursing Education ".
What Matters: Tools Designed to Assist Primary Care Better Screen and Support Older Adults
This webinar (53:29 minutes) given by Drs. Ana Tuya Fulton and Mary Beth Welesko discusses the components of geriatric assessment along with geriatric assessment tools and how they can be applied in a primary care setting. It also identifies geriatric assessment tools for patients who would benefit from additional evaluation along with resources for patients and caregivers based on the results of a geriatric assessment. Free registration is required to access webinar. Continuing education credit is available. (Presentation begins at 3:10 minutes). This webinar is found under module 1.