• Clinical Communication in the Nursing Home: Improving Congestive Heart Failure (and Diabetes Mellitus) Management
    CHF DVD Additional Materials


  • Dining and Dignity: Resident Dining in the Long-Term Care Setting  
    Dining and Dignity DVD Additional Materials


  • Interactive Balance and Gait Tutorial
    Interactive Balance and Gait Tutorial
    The Interactive Gait and Balance Training Module is based on the fall risk assessment tool developed by M. Tinetti. This peer-reviewed tool can be used to assess fall risk in a wide variety of settings, including outpatient, acute, home, and long-term care. The computer-based training module was created as a reusable learning object, consisting of textual content and multimedia animations and videos.
    Intended Audience: Health care staff
  • The Performance-Oriented Mobility Assessment (POMA)
    POMA
    The Interactive Performance Oriented Mobility Assessment (iPOMA) is based on the fall risk assessment tool developed by M. Tinetti. The iPOMA demonstrates the administration and scoring of the instrument through the use of videos depicting the execution of the POMA and the corresponding scores. Learners have opportunities to practice what they have learned through video-based practice exercises.
    Intended Audience: Health care staff
    Requirements: Most current browsers and Flash Player 7 or later
  • Geriatric Assessment Light
    ADL/IADL
    Depression Assessment
    Quick GeriROS
    Mini-Cog
    The Timed Up and Go Test
    The Geriatric Assessment Light, or GeriLight, is a set of 5 quick and easy tools to assess an elderly person and include ADL and IADLs, depression assessment, review of systems (GeriROS), a cognitive assessment (MiniCog) and a mobility assessment (Timed Up-and-Go Test).
  • Links to other Websites and Documents
    • Long-Term Care for the Frail Elderly in Florida: Expanding Choices, Containing Costs
      PDF
      This paper is an integrated summary of three reports prepared by the Florida Policy Exchange Center on Aging at the University of South Florida and the Southeast Florida Center on Aging at Florida International University for the Commission on Long-Term Care in Florida. The three reports were designed to document the trends described above and to identify the kinds of changes in long-term care that would best position the state to address the dilemma of growing demand and declining resources.
    • Long-Term Care Advances Quarterly
      Long-Term Care Advances Quarterly
      Link to Duke University's 'Long-Term Care Advances Quarterly'. PDFs of each issue are available.
    • The Occasional Long Term Care Policy Paper Series
      The Occasional Long Term Care Policy Paper Series
      This is a Link to Duke University's 'The Occasional Long-Term Care Policy Paper Series' from the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development PDFs of each issue are available.
    • Center for Housing and Long-Term Care
      Center for Housing and Long-Term Care
      Links to Housing and Long-Term Care Resources including Florida Government Agencies, Other Florida University Centers on Housing and Long-Term Care, Florida Consumer and Advocacy Groups, Florida Assisted Living Facilities and more.
    • Long-Term Care for the Elderly with Disabilities
      Long-Term Care for the Elderly with Disabilities
      This report arrays evidence and analysis to assist decision makers in the private and public sectors to address three important and perplexing questions about long-term care for the increasing number of Americans who are elderly and frail. These questions are who should pay for long-term care services through what mechanisms; how to design and deliver these services; and how to recruit, train, and retain a workforce to deliver long-term care services.
    • Try This: Best Practices in Care for Older Adults
      Try This: Best Practices in Care for Older Adults
      The goal of the Try This: Best Practices in Care for Older Adults series of assessment tools is to provide knowledge of best practices in the care of older adults that is: easily accessible, easily understood, easily implemented, and to encourage the use of these best practices by all direct care nurses.
  • TNH Outreach January 2008
    TNH Outreach
    Floridas Teaching Nursing Home (TNH)
    TNH Assessing Pain
    TNH Depression in Dementia
    TNH Improving Communication in the Management of CHF
    TNH Dining and Dignity
    TNH LTC ACEs