Clinician and Trainee Resources
This 4M Age-Friendly resource library, developed by the COACH 4M project and funded by HRSA (Project #: 6 U1QHP28745-03-06), provides clinicians and trainees with short, informational videos about important Geriatric topics. These resources are provided in various formats: exam demonstrations, presentations, and interviews.
What Matters
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Patient Priorities Care, a Yale-led research project, offers short training videos for health care professionals to learn how to identify what matters most to their patients and make care decisions that reflect each person’s unique health priorities.
Priority Aligned Decision Making: Anchoring in What Matters Most
Dr. Jennifer Ouellet highlights the importance of care based on What Matters Most to patients, and how the Patient Priorities Care approach can help identify patient’s health priorities and align care with those priorities.
Medication
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The IMPROVE (Initiative to Minimize Pharmaceutical Risk in Older Veterans) Polypharmacy Project offers resources and references to educate trainees in the recognition and management of polypharmacy among older adults.
Mentation
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You’re Mumbling! The Impact of Hearing Loss on Communication
Dr. Meg Wallhagen, Professor of Gerontological Nursing, reviews how aging can affect hearing, the impact of hearing impairment, and strategies around communication.
Biology of Memory
In this lecture, Dr. Leo Cooney discusses what memory is, how it works, and how aging affects memory.
Sleep Disturbances in Older Adults: Causes, Consequences, and Evaluation
Dr. Brienne Miner gives a comprehensive overview of sleep in the context of aging, how sleep disturbances are unique for older adults, and how to evaluate sleep complaints.
Mobility
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Assessment of Gait
In this lecture, Dr. Leo Cooney gives an overview of how to assess gait in older adults and common disorders associated with gait. This is important to reduce the risk of falling.
Falls Assessment
In this lecture, Dr. Leo Cooney discusses the importance of falls assessment in older adults and how to prevent them.
Upper Extremity Joint Exam (Part 1)
Dr. Cooney covers how to examine the hands, wrists, elbows, and shoulders
Lower Extremity Joint Exam (Part 2)
Dr. Cooney covers how to examine the feet, ankles, knees, and hips.
Examination of Muscles
Dr. Leo Cooney demonstrates how to examine the muscles in older adults as well as common diseases to look for.
Patient & Caregiver Communication
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Interview with Catherine Riffin, PhD, Research Psychologist Improving the Experiences of Caregivers in Primary Care Encounters
Catherine Riffin, PhD, an Assistant Professor of Psychology in Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, shares her work helping healthcare professionals for older adults provide family-centered care. For example, she discusses how clinicians can identify, communicate with, and assist caregivers in clinical encounters.
Part 1: Involving Caregivers in Clinical Conversations with Older Adults
Part 2: Balancing Family Involvement and Patient Autonomy and The Caregiver Checklist
“ERASE”-ing Mistreatment by Patients
In this impactful talk, Dr. Kristen Wilkins discusses the potential mistreatment of healthcare workers by patients, including the impact, barriers to addressing this issue, how to recognize when mistreatment is happening, and how to respond.
Caregiver Preparedness: Considerations for Novice and Experienced Caregivers
In this lecture, Dr. Emily Mroz discusses the importance of caregiver preparedness for older adults and the need for more research and resources in this area.
Family Caregiving for Older Adults: Health Effects and Interventions
This presentation from Dr. Joan Monin provides an overview of existing evidence on the impact of various psychosocial and behavioral interventions for caregivers on health. It covers how caregiving is defined, risk factors for adverse caregiving experiences, and new efforts to disseminate caregiving interventions to the health care system and communities.
Caregiving for older adult immigrants in the U.S.
PhD Student, Thi Vu, discusses the unique considerations around older adult immigrants in the U.S.