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Ageism

"Look at Me" Video Short http://www.youtube.com/user/supportIT

Interview on getting older, Maya Angelou http://www.womenspeak.com/age_oprah.php

"See Me Nurse" Video Short http://hartfordcenter.uams.edu/SouthernRegionCoalition/default.asp

Poem: On Aging, Maya Angelou http://www.knowledge4africa.co.za/english-poetry/on-aging.htm


Assessment

Environment- Teaching strategy: Environmental Assessment developed by OHSU Faculty

Functional-Teaching strategy: Functional Assessment developed by Walla Walla Faculty
http://www.nwcoalition.org/fa.html

Person-Environment Fit- Wallis, Velma (2004). Two old women: An Alaskan legend of betrayal, courage and survival. Perennial, New York, NY. (use as a case study applying the person-environment fit conceptual framework

"Try This" assessment tools- A series of assessment tools providing best practices in the care of older adults. http://www.hartfordign.org/resources/education/tryThis.html


Caregiving

Staff- Better Jobs for Better Care: A program focused on changing long-term care policy and practice http://www.bjbc.org


Care Settings

Community-based settings- Teaching exemplar: Client Partner Project developed by University of Portland faculty(to be posted soon)


Competencies

List of knowledge, skills and attitudes nurses must demonstrate to care for older adults-

AACN-http://www.aacn.nche.edu/education/gercomp.htm

Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing-http://www.hartfordign.org/resources/education/bsnnursecomp.html

Abbreviated Competency list- List of 9 competencies developed by gerontological faculty at OHSU. Incorporates the content of expanded competencies. 1-3 focus on the individual, 4-6 includes family & caregivers, while 7-9 adds the perspectives of the community, systems and larger issues facing older adults.(to be posted soon)


Dementia

Alzheimer's- 4 Short videos (each <3 min) http://www.aboutalz.org


End of life

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy. A short novel that can be used as a case study as it relates to family and individual issues regarding dying, death and bereavement.

The Last Decision a poem by Maya Angelou, in The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou


Global Aging

Why population aging matters: A global perspective (2007) National Institute on Aging & National Institutes of Health. Publication no. 07-6134. http://www.state.gov/g/oes/rls/or/81537.htm

20 Questions about Global Aging (pp iii & iv)Kinsella, Kevin and Victoria A. Velkoff, U.S. Census Bureau, Series P95/01-1 An Aging World: 2001, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2001. http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/p95-01-1.pdf


Relocation

Fried Green Tomatoes (Film excerpt when she leaves nursing home looking for her home, all she has is a small suitcase)


Sensory Changes

"Unfair Hearing Test" Free, interactive, 5 minute audio clip that illustrates hearing losses with aging http://odeo.com/audio/9052683/view


Sexuality

Sex and Aging: A Game of Awareness and Interaction ($18.00) http://extension.oregonstate.edu/fcd/aging/expubs.php Scroll to the bottom of the page


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