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Health Professional

Older Adults Trust and Respect Their Care Providers. How Can We Best Help?

Provide Holistic Care:

  • Health Solutions
  • Focus on Wellness

Facilitate Care Transitions:

  • Family Notebook
  • Discharge Planning Handout

Utilize evidence based screening tools:

  • Dementia Screening
  • 4-Step Process to Detecting Cognitive Impairment and Earlier Diagnosis of Dementia
  • Falls Prevention Best Practices

Promote healthy lifestyle choices

  • Exercise (Workout to Go)

Start the often uncomfortable conversations around

  • Loneliness
  • Assessing Loneliness
  • Sexuality
  • Continence
  • Memory loss
  • Social Isolation
  • Assessing for Abuse in Later Life
  • Preventing Suicide in Older Adults
  • End of life planning…

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Quick Tips

Printable Materials

  • Talking with Your Doctor
  • Advance Planning
  • ALZ Medication Factsheet
  • ALZ Disease Factsheet
  • Fall Prevention Guide for Caregivers
  • Next Steps after an ALZ Diagnosis
  • Take Action with Early Cognitive Decline

Online Education

NIH/NIA, Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias Resources for Professionals

Free VA Dementia Education with CE

ICOA Caregiver Skills Course

ICOA Dementia Skills Course

ICOA Healthy Caregiving Course

 

Stay Educated

Alzheimer's

  • Understanding Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Legal and Financial Planning for People with Alzheimer’s
  • Website:  Alzheimers

Dementia

  • LewyBody Dementia
  • Non-Pharmacologic Approaches to Dementia Care
  • Biomarkers for Dementia Detection

Caregiving

  • Benjamin Rose Institute Caregiver Strain Instrument
  • Reach II Risk Appraisal
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Older Adults Trust and Respect Their Care Providers. How Can We Best Help?

Provide Holistic Care:

  • Health Solutions
  • Focus on Wellness

Facilitate Care Transitions:

  • Family Notebook
  • Discharge Planning Handout

Utilize evidence based screening tools:

  • Dementia Screening
  • 4-Step Process to Detecting Cognitive Impairment and Earlier Diagnosis of Dementia
  • Falls Prevention Best Practices

Promote healthy lifestyle choices

  • Exercise (Workout to Go)

Start the often uncomfortable conversations around

  • Loneliness
  • Assessing Loneliness
  • Sexuality
  • Continence
  • Memory loss
  • Social Isolation
  • Assessing for Abuse in Later Life
  • Preventing Suicide in Older Adults
  • End of life planning

For additional information, below are links to other subject areas specific to Healthcare Professionals, and to the right are Quick Tips that are updated periodically.