Acute Care for Elders (ACE) is a model of care designed to improve functional outcomes and to improve the processes for the care of older patients. This model includes: an environment of care designed to promote improved function for older patients; an interdisciplinary team that works together to identify/address the vulnerabilities of the older patients; nursing care plans for prevention of disability; early planning to help prepare the patient to return home and a review of medical care to prevent iatrogenic illness.Acute Care for Elders: A Model for Interdisciplinary Care is an essential new resource aimed at assisting providers in developing and sustaining an ACE program. The interdisciplinary approach provides an introduction to the key vulnerabilities of older adults and defines the lessons learned from the Acute Care for Elders model. Expertly written chapters describe critical aspects of ACE: the interdisciplinary approach and the focus on function. The fundamental principles of ACE described in this book will further assist hospital leaders to develop, implement, sustain and disseminate the Acute Care for Elders model of care. Acute Care for Elders: A Model for Interdisciplinary Care is of great value to geriatricians, hospitalists, advance practice nurses, social workers and all others who provide high quality care to older patients
Audience: Nurses, social workers, nurse aides, home health aides, and adult care or foster home staff, and family caregivers
Summary: This tape portrays effective approaches to assisting with personal care activities of daily living. It combines footage of actual situations involving individuals who have Alzheimer's disease, caregiver interviews, narration and dramatizations
Audience: Nurses, social workers, nurse aides, home health aides, and adult care or foster home staff, and family caregivers
Summary: This tape explores basic causes of problem behaviours, general guidelines for coping with these behaviours, and using a problem-solving approach. It combines footage of actual problem situations, narration and excerpts from a caregivers' workshop on problem behaviours
Audience: Nurses, social workers, nurse aides, home health aides, and adult care or foster home staff, and family caregivers
Summary: This tape centres around footage of caregivers and persons with Azheimer's disease taking part in a variety of recreational activities. It also uses narration and dramatization to clarify the benefits of recreation, how to select successful activities and how to introduce activities effectively
Audience: Nurses, social workers, nurse aides, home health aides, and adult care or foster home staff, and family caregivers
Summary: This tape presents a simplified discussion of diagnostic criteria for dementia and Alzheimer's disease, selected aspects of brain functioning and memory, and the effects of Alzheimer's disease on the brain, behaviour and functioning. It concludes with a thought-provoking experiential segment designed to increase the viewer's empathy for people with dementia
Assessing difficult behavior in the elderly : an educational series for community and institutional based health professionals in continuing care and mental health
Assessing difficult behavior in the elderly : an educational series for community and institutional based health professionals in continuing care and mental health
Videocassette Program I. Common psychiatric syndromes seen in the elderly ; Program II. Assessment techniques [includes Folstein Mini-Mental State Examination-MMSE] ; Program III. Common clinical scenarios ; Program IV. Ethical issues in the management of elderly clients
Booklet title: Assessing difficult behavior in the elderly: an educational series for long term care and mental health / written by Elisabeth Drance in consultation with members of the Divisions of Continuing Care and Mental Health, Ministry of Health, Government of British Columbia
Folder [1]. [Preface] ; Folder [2]. Program I. Common psychiatric syndromes seen in the elderly ; Folder [3]. Program II. The assessment process ; Folder [4]. Program III. Common clinical scenarios ; Folder [5]. Program IV. Ethical issues in the management of elderly clients ; Folder [6]. Programs I-IV. Answer book