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This website provides information on the Alzheimer's Association's work to address Alzheimer's as a public health crisis includes guidance and tools for public health departments, the Public Health Center of Excellence in Dementia Risk Reduction, tools and resources for health systems, and the Interdisciplinary Summer Research Institute for researchers. Also included is information on the Healthy Brain Initiative, the Dementia Risk Reduction Summit, health systems change, and early warning signs.

The Alzheimer's Association is partnering with medical experts to address the rising costs of dementia care and improve patient experience and outcomes along the way. With their help, your network will gain the knowledge necessary to make timely diagnoses and treatment plans, reducing more expensive hospitalizations and allowing you to more effectively manage costs. This website provides guidelines and recommendations for healthcare professionals, as well as a variety of resources that can help patients and caregivers cope and live with a dementia diagnosis.

BOLD Early Detection Toolkits are intended to guide you in customizing dementia detection efforts to your needs and setting. Toolkits contain measures, strategies, and useful links to resources to help you work toward becoming more ‘dementia-capable.’ This toolkit supports a comprehensive approach to dementia detection and includes resources that encompass a broad view of the capacities needed to make your efforts most effective. Every section in this toolkit can stand alone as a separate resource.

The Rapid Geriatric Assessment (RGA) is a brief screening tool that:
• provides a brief, reliable method for detecting common geriatric syndromes, including frailty, sarcopenia, geriatric anorexia, and cognitive function; 
• helps identify problems for which early interventions are most likely to be successful; and 
• enables tracking of changes over time (annual screening checks)

ACT on Alzheimer’s and its partners strive to increase the capacity of dental providers to care for the growing number of older adults living with dementia and to support their care partners. This website provides training packages and resources for the entire dental team (DDS, DH, DT, DA and administrative staff).

ACT on Alzheimer's® Dementia Friendly Community Toolkit provides tools and resources to guide communities in adopting dementia-friendly practices. The toolkit is divided into four phases: Convene, Assess, Analyze and ACT Together.

Source: ACT on Alzheimer's.
https://actonalz.org/

This capability framework was informed by the orginal Canadian competency framework published in 2010 but describes interprofessional competencies/capabilities in the Australian education context. More specifcally Curtin University's health science faculty which includes 26 disciplines. 

This guide is based on lessons learned from a 12 month project titled 'Archietcuring health' that brought together students studying a health professional qualification with architecture students and staff. The aim of the project was to explore how health and wellbeing can be optimised through interdisciplinary collaboration and space activation. The guide's aim is to assist staff to create, implement and evaluate interdisciplinary work integrated learning utilising design thinking - specifically studio-based learning - as a key element.

This Guide is designed to inform the incorporation of interdisciplinary project-based learning into undergraduate or postgraduate programs. Interdisciplinary project-based learning provides an opportunity for university staff, students, and industry partners to enhance their capabilities through collaborating on authentic problem solving.

Based on experiences with interprofessional education in health professional education, this guide provides the key approaches to establish effective interdisciplinary/interprofessional team learning during clinical placements/rotations. The guide can be used to establish an interprofessional team based placement or program of placements with multiple industry hosts. The guide gives an overview of the essential dimensions required to establish and evaluate interprofessional placements. This includes tips, suggested readings and several proforma tools.