Clinical Communication in the Nursing Home: Improving Congestive Heart Failure (and Diabetes Mellitus) Management

Dining and Dignity: Resident Dining in the Long-Term Care Setting  

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)

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

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).

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TNH Outreach January 2008