Try This: Best Practices in Care for Older Adults
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Summary
Try This is a series of assessment tools where each issue focuses on a topic specific to the older adult population. Each issue is a 2-page document with a description of why the topic is important when caring for older patients on the first page, and an assessment tool that can be administered in 20 minutes or less on the second page. A publication of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, the series of over 20 assessments is accessible online and also as hard copy.
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Sources
Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing
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Keywords
direct care nurses; Urinary Incontinence Assessment; Confusion Assessment Method (CAM); Elder Abuse and Neglect Assessment; Caregiver Strain Index (CSI); Beer’s Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in the Elderly; Alcohol Use Screening and Assessment; Horowitz\'s Impact of Event Scale; Preventing Aspiration in Older Adults with Dysphagia; Geriatric Oral Health Index; Immunizations for the Older Adult; Decision Making and Dementia; Assessing and Managing Delirium in Persons with Dementia; Avoiding Restraints in Persons with Dementia; Alcohol Use Screening and Assessment; Therapeutic Activity Kits; Assessing Pain in Persons with Dementia; Recognition of Dementia in Hospitalized Older Adults; Wandering in the Hospitalized Older Adult; Brief Evaluation of Executive Dysfunction: An Essential Refinement in the Cognitive Impairment; Communication Difficulties: Assessment and Interventions
Contact
Alexis
Melendez
Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing
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adm6@nyu.edu
Phone
212-992-9416