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Sensitizing Students To Functional Limitations In The Elderly: An Aging Simulation, Sherry Allen, Viki Lorraine, Anne Lockett, Carolyn M. Rutledge
Sensitizing Students To Functional Limitations In The Elderly: An Aging Simulation, Sherry Allen, Viki Lorraine, Anne Lockett, Carolyn M. Rutledge
Nursing Faculty Publications
Background and Objectives: Using activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) as a focus, faculty at Eastern Virginia Medical School provide an aging simulation exercise for a mandatory fouth-year clerkship in geriatrics. The specific aims of the simulation are to 1) experience the physical frailties of aging, 2) develop creative problem-solving techniques, 3) identify feelings regarding the experience of functional loss, and 4) develop proactive clinical approaches to the care of the elderly.
Methods: Students are assigned one of four diagnoses (Parkinson's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, advanced diabetes, or stroke) and are then impaired to simulate …
Preventing The Unnecessary Losses Of Alzheimer's Disease, Lin E. Noyes
Preventing The Unnecessary Losses Of Alzheimer's Disease, Lin E. Noyes
Case Studies from Age in Action
Educational Objectives
1. To state the importance of early detection and diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.
2. To describe common concerns of people in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease.
3. To describe interventions to help people who have recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or other dementias.
Reducing Medication Mismanagement In Adult Care Residences, Mary Ann F. Kirkpatrick
Reducing Medication Mismanagement In Adult Care Residences, Mary Ann F. Kirkpatrick
Case Studies from Age in Action
Educational Objectives
1. Describe the prevalence of medication mismanagement in adult care facilities in Virginia.
2. Explain the significance of selected medication management errors.
3. Recommend practices to improve medication management task performance in adult care facilities.
State Regulation Of Assisted Living Facilities, Sonya A. Sterbenz
State Regulation Of Assisted Living Facilities, Sonya A. Sterbenz
Case Studies from Age in Action
Educational Objectives
1. To define the role of assisted living facilities in the continuum of long-term care options for older adults.
2. To present the various arguments concerning the regulation of the assisted living industry.
Medications And Falls, Patricia W. Slattum
Medications And Falls, Patricia W. Slattum
Case Studies from Age in Action
Educational Objectives:
1. To describe potential causes of falls and ways to prevent them.
2. To illustrate how medications can contribute to an increased risk of falls and recommend strategies for reducing this risk.
The Hidden Age Revolution: Emergent Integration Of All Ages, Matilda White Riley
The Hidden Age Revolution: Emergent Integration Of All Ages, Matilda White Riley
Center for Policy Research
Over the past 30 years my colleagues and I have been focusing on conceptual and empirical work (the aging and society paradigm) that does not create policies, but can inform them. The most immediate phase of this long cumulative history is leading us now to hidden changes in people's lives and social institutions that herald a new phenomenon world-wide--a phenomenon that may have momentous implications for the policies of the future. We call it "age integration" because it *integrates* older people with others of every age. When I come to the end of my lecture, I hope you will see …