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

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.