Caring for older adults in a clinical setting provides unique opportunities and challenges. Below are clinical tools and trainings to help the healthcare professional provide excellent geriatric health care.
Developed by the FSU NCF-GWEP, this Nursing Assessment training covers clinical assessments in eight different domains of geriatric care.
This interactive training module on Communicating with Older Adult Patients teaches clinical staff ways to adjust protocol and practices in the clinical setting to help geriatric patients who may have vision or hearing problems, have a caregiver present, or need simplified instructions.
CATCH-ON has created an Anti-Elderspeak Language Guide that can be used to inform training and clinical spaces on how to honor and acknowledge older adults through non-ageist verbal and non-verbal language.
Based on a feedback from nurses through a needs assessment, the NCF-GWEP created an interactive, online module on Influenza for CNAs and Other Staff. This training discusses strategies for clinical staff to prevent getting the flu themselves as well as spreading it to others in the context of post-acute and long-term care
The interactive Pain Assessment and Management for the RN/LPN online module was developed by the NCF-GWEP to help nurses understand pain management and their role in it. Continuing education credits for RN and LPN licenses are available.
The National Institute on Aging has created a library of articles for healthcare providers on how to effectively communicate with their older adult patients and their families, promote their wellness, and discussing sensitive topics.
Created by the NCF-GWEP in partnership with the Healthcare network of South Florida, this Geriatrics Social History template is an example of useful questions to incorporate into a clinic’s electronic medical record.
Visit the Medicare Learning Network’s site to understand Medicare’s Annual Wellness Visit, it’s components, coding, the differences between this visit and other types, and more.
The MLN Booklet on the Annual Wellness Visit, created by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Medicare Learning Network, helps providers understand Medicare’s Annual Wellness Visit, it’s components, coding, the differences between this visit and other examination types, and more.
HRSA’s Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program has developed helpful guides on how to optimize care for those aging with HIV. Learn more about how all members of the health care team can contribute to caring for this population as well as identify their commonly occurring health care and social needs.
Flip the Script promotes discovery, understanding and the use of safe and encouraging pain management approaches to reduce opioid prescription misuse in older adults.
A variety of printable handouts that provide easy-to-remember information on 4Ms topics.
If medications are necessary, this M focuses on using age-friendly medications that do not affect a person’s care goals, their mobility, and their mentation. Many
