Resources

Attitude

This brief yet thorough video explains the four sociological tiers of ageism, and provides information regarding cultural views on age.

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Challenging Medical Ageism: A Path to Better Health

The founder of the Radical Age Lab talks about medical ageism in this video. It provides examples of common medical ageist comments and consequences, how this affects evidence-based practice, and how medical needs can be missed based on ageist thinking.

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Continuing Mobile Education

This resource provides a short presentation that interviews geriatricians to suggest skills for improving effective communication with seniors.

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Meeting the Health Care Needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Older Adults

This online webinar discusses prominent health care needs of LGBT seniors, and how they may be different than heterosexual seniors including effects of economic, social, and environmental determinants of health.

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The ETHNICS Mnemonic: Clinical Tool, Didactics, and Small Group Facilitators Guide

This resource provides a culturally sensitive checklist of questions for health professionals to understand where clients currently stand with their diagnosis/perception of events, and knowledge of the health system.

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Comfort

A Guide to End-of-Life Care for Seniors

This guide to end of life care presents of overview of the issues related to end of life for seniors.

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Delirium, Dementia, and Depression: What's the Difference

A handout that will help differentiate delirium, dementia, and depression in older adults.

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Ethics and the Chronic Pain Stigma in Geriatric Populations

This audio clip addresses stigma and beliefs surrounding chronic pain in our society.

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Physicians Promote Successful Aging

This article addresses the differences between objective and subjective aging.

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Sexuality and Aging

This quick and easy to read fact sheet addresses relevant issues pertaining to sexuality of older adults.

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Talking with your Older Patient

This creative handbook focuses on health care perceptions in various ways (Views of clinicians, aging, and values about health).

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General Resources

Ask Me 3®

Ask Me 3 is a patient education program designed to improve communication between patients and health care providers, encourage patients to become active members of their health care team, and promote improved health outcomes.

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Elder Abuse | Geriatric Foundations

This module trains participants to identify risk factors and signs of elder abuse, collaborate with interdisciplinary teams, and utilize community resources to effectively prevent and respond to abuse in older adults.

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Improving Communication With Older Patients: Tips From the Literature - Family Practice Management

Poor communication with this vulnerable and growing population can undermine your efforts to provide good patient care.

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Shared Decision Making

This educational video module is on shared decision making with older adults.

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So, Who's Making the Decision?

An interprofessional, person-centred approach to the care of the older adult.

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Inclusiveness

Can the Patient Decide? Evaluating Patient Capacity in Practice (Article)

Physicians assess the decision-making capacity of their patients at every clinical encounter.

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Decision Making and Dementia (Article)

Decision-making in the context of dementia can pose an interesting challenge to the health care professional.

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E-Ageing: Rehabilitation Module

This article follows the journey of Mr. Tanner, a patient recovering from a recent stroke, and explores the multidisciplinary approach to care in a rehabilitation centre.

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Improving Hospital-To-Home Transitions for Older Adults with Complex Health and Social Needs in Ontario

This evidence brief aims to inform deliberations that could help to improve the quality and experience of hospital-to-home transitions for older adults with complex health and social needs (and their caregivers) in Ontario.

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Improving Medication Adherence in Older Adults: What Can We Do?

This resource provides a quick overview on identifying which patients in the geriatric population are at risk for medication mismanagement, how to assess for medication adherence, and strategies for dealing with medication non-adherence.

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Medication and Non-Adherence in the Older Adult

Although not restricted to older populations, medication non-adherence is a multifactorial phenomenon often overlooked in developing care plans for patients.

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What matters most in end-of-life care: perceptions of seriously ill patients and their family members

Initiatives to improve end-of-life care are hampered by our nascent understanding of what quality care means to patients and their families.

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Non-verbal Communication

Beyond Words: older people with dementia using and interpreting non-verbal behaviour

The “findings” and “discussion” section offer valuable insight into the ways older adults with dementia communicate nonverbally, and how these behaviours can be interpreted.

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Improving Communication with Older Adults: Tips from the Literature

This is a short article listing suggestions to improve the quality of communication with elderly patients. It gives tips for verbal and non-verbal communication, as well as organizational changes that can facilitate interactions with older adults.

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MLREMS Continuing Mobile Education - Communication

Short videos going over tips for working with some common communication issues faced by HCPs working with the elderly. Goes over hearing impairments, aphasia, and how to communicate respectfully.

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Module 1: Communicating with Older Adults

A learning module that offers some good “do’s and don’ts” of communicating with elderly patients.

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Patience, Listening, and Communicating with Aphasia Patients

Video works through some stories of people with aphasia, followed by suggestions for HCPs from patients, families, and their care providers (tips start at 8:00). Goes through important distinctions between aphasia, dementia, and deafness that people don’t always realize.

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Verbal Communication

Falls: General Information

This PDF provides information for patients on how to talk to their doctor about concerns they may have about their risk of falling and includes tips on how to avoid falls, potential signs to look for, and modifications that could be made to decrease risk.

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Meeting the Health Care Needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Older Adults

At the 30min mark, this thought-provoking presentation offers strategies for respectful communication, and how many common questions health care practitioners use (e.g. “Do you have a husband?” “Are you married?”) may make LGBT seniors uncomfortable with disclosing health information.

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The Fountain of Health

This website presents emphasis on changing how we think about aging.

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The Fountain of Health Website

This website presents emphasis on changing how we think about aging.

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Western Australian Centre for Healthy Ageing: E-Ageing Modules

An interactive tool to guide healthcare students in interdisciplinary, patient-centered interviewing with older adults over a variety of scenarios.