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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…

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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

 

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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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Reading More

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.

Reading More

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.