Older Adults Trust and Respect Their Care Providers. How Can We Best Help?
Provide Holistic Care:
Facilitate Care Transitions:
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
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.
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
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