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Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program training tools
Welcome to our GWEP training tools webpage, where we offer tips for anyone working with geriatric patients. Physicians and support staff can download these tools from our clinic staff training seminars as well as from our in-home support service (IHSS) training topics.
Geriatric Information for Primary Care Providers »
- Healthy aging
- A closer Look at Healthy Aging Video with Dr. Xaviour Walker
- Preventative medicine in the elderly
- 2017 recommended immunizations for adults
- Look who's driving now!
- Special considerations for the management of hypertension and diabetes when caring for older adults
- Case studies in drug interactions and polypharmacy issues
- Needs assessment: Minority aging cohort interview on health and healthcare
- Medical aspects of elder abuse
- Annual wellness exam
- Diagnosis and management of dementia (major neurocognitive disorder)
- Caring for family caregivers
- Serious illness conversation guide for primary care providers
- Depression among older adults
- Pharmacotherapy of insomnia, anxiety and depression in older adults
- Understanding and prescribing DME
Geriatric Pocket Cards for Primary Care Providers »
- The annual wellness visit (AWV)
- Annual Wellness Visit Video with Dr. Lisa Gibbs
- Working with memory loss
- Evaluation of Memory Complaints & Management of Dementia Video with Dr. Steven Tam
- Managing diabetes mellitus type 2 in older adults
- Healthy Aging Video with Dr. Xaviour Walker
- Identifying elder abuse
- Elder and Dependent Adult Abuse Video with Dr. Lisa Gibbs
- Medicare-covered services
- Long Term Care Video with Geraldine Date
- Caregiver Issues Video with Kari Walker
- Driving Safety for the Older Adult Video with Camille Fitzpatrick
- Serious illness conversation guide
- Vaccines Recommendations for the Older Adult Video with Camille Fitzpatrick
- Physician orders for life-sustaining treatment (POLST)
- Órdenes del médico de tratamiento para el mantenimiento de la vida (POLST Español)
Clinicians Guide for Dementia Care »
Senior Community Resources - Orange County »
Geriatric Information for Support Staff »
IHSS training »
Diabetes and chronic disease management
- Living healthy with diabetes
- Starting insulin — a patient guide: Diet and exercise
- Include all four types of exercise
- Checking the sugar in your blood if you have diabetes
- The do's and don'ts for diabetic foot care
- Opciones de carbohidratos y tamaño de porciones (Español)
- Iniciando insulina — una guía para pacientes: Dieta y ejercicio (Español)
- Incluya los cuatro tipos de ejercicios (Español)
End-of-life caregiver stress
Fall prevention and body mechanics
- Fall prevention for older adults
- Check for safety: A home fall prevention checklist for older adults
- Gait belt — safe use
- Wheelchair safety and etiquette
- Using a cane
- Walkers
- Include all four types of exercise
- Lista de seguridad (Español)
- Levantamiento con seguridad en el consultorio médico (Español)
- Cómo usar un bastón (Español)
- Incluya los cuatro tipos de ejercicios (Español)
Personal care
- Personal care presentation and outline
- Bladder and bowel care: Female/male perineal care
- Basic mouth care
- Caregiver distress assessment
- Use SSKIN to manage & prevent pressure damage
Flu
- Influenza (flu) vaccine (inactivated or recombinant): What you need to know
- Flu and you
- Flu prevention and infection control
- Handwashing: at home, at play, and out and about
- Rules of the game for food safety
- Cover your cough
- Vacuna (inactiva o recombinante) contra la influenza (gripe): Lo que debe saber (Español)
Bowel and bladder care
