Training Tool for Dementia Care Providers The Riverside Center for Excellence in Aging and Lifelong Health has developed a person-centered dementia care training tool. Based on CMS’s Hand in Hand Toolkit, the training tool contains 52 brief video lessons intended for people who work in nursing homes, assisted living communities, and home care. Each lesson is under …
What Are Palliative Care and Hospice Care?
Many Americans die in facilities such as hospitals or nursing homes receiving care that is not consistent with their wishes. It’s important for older adults to plan ahead and let their caregivers, doctors, or family members know your end-of-life preferences in advance. For example, if an older person wants to die at home, receiving end-of-life …
Shingles – What You Need to Know
In this article, the National Insitute on Aging provides insight on shingles including symptoms, treatment, vaccines, and risk factors. Shingles, also called herpes zoster, is a disease that triggers a painful skin rash. It is caused by the same virus as chickenpox, the varicella-zoster virus. After you recover from chickenpox (usually as a child), the …
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