Resources
- Cognitive Impairment Detection and Earlier Diagnosis
- Reducing the Use of Antipsychotic Medications in People with Dementia: A New Approach
Assessments & Guidelines
- KAER Toolkit: 4-Step Process to Detecting Cognitive Impairment and Earlier Diagnosis of Dementia
- How to Use the GSA KAER Toolkit
- The Brief Cognitive Assessment Tool
- Geriatric Pain Assessment Tool
- Improving Dementia Care in Nursing Homes
Initiatives & Innovations
- Alzha TV: A Smartphone App to Manage Depression, Anxiety and Agitation in Dementia Patients in Nursing Homes
- How Skilled Human Touch Can Transform Person-Centered Dementia Care
- Non-Pharmacological Activity Interventions
- DeGowin's Diagnostic Examination
- Non-pharmacological Interventions for Agitation in Dementia
- Evidence-based interventions to support people with Alzheimer's disease and their caregivers at home and in the community
- Dementia Simulation
- The Eldercare Method
- Star-VA Intervention for Managing Challenging Behaviors in VA Community Living Center Residents with Demetia
- Star-VA: A Multi-fomponent of Psychosocial Intervention from Managing Challenging Behaiors in Reseidents with Dementiain Veterens Health Administration
- Evidence-based interventions to support people with Alzheimer's disease and their caregivers at home and in the community
- Dementia Action Alliance
- Music and Memory
- Positive Approach to Care
- Video: Leadership and care providers at the Villages of Southern Hills in Tulsa, OK support a national and state initiative to reduce unnecessary antipsychotic medication
- SAIDO Learning Centers: Improving the quality of life for seniors with Alzheimer's and dementia
- For Elders With Dementia, Musical Awakenings
- Gardening/Farming as a physical therapy tool
- Video: Helping Hands helps both the community and residents
- Ecumen “Awakenings”: Reducing Antipsychotic Drug Use
Handouts
- Twenty Questions to Change the Direction of Dementia Anxiety and Agression
- Dementia Dialogues: Five Sessions to Educate Individuals Caring for Persons who Exhibit Signs Associated with Alzheimer's Disease or Related Dementia
- Dementia Care Advocacy Toolkit
- Antipsychotic Reduction Resident Prioritization Tool
- Antipyschotic Medication Reference Guide
- Antipsychotic Alternatives
- Non-Pharmacological Interventions for Behavior
- Quick Guide to Start a Quality Assurance Performance Improvement (QAPI) Project: Antipschotic Medication Reduction
- Changing Antipsychotic Thinking (CAT) Tip Sheets 1-6
- Avoidance of Unecessary Antipsychotic Medications in Nursing Home Residents Living with Dementia
- Delirium Basics Fact Sheet
- Engaging Staff in Individualizing Care: Consistent Assignment
- Using the Life Story Tool
- Life Story Questionaire
- FAQ Aligning Nursing Home Quality Initiatives
- GARD Competency Guide
- Home Thermostat Tool
- Staff Huddles Tip Sheet
- Psychological Services in Long-Term Care Resource Guide
- Long-Term Care Improvement Guide
- National Nursing Home Quality Care Collaborative
- A Process for Care Planning for Resident Choice
Presentations
- A Perspepective on CMS' Antipyschotic Reduction Initiative
- Antipsychotics and the Nursing Home
- California Departnemt of Public Health Nursing Home Anipsychotic Medication Use
- How to Access Your Nursing Home's MDS Quality Measure Scores
- Evidence-Based Approaches to Improve Quality of LIfe for Persons Living with Dementia
Research
- A systematic review of the literature based on the RE-AIM framework
- Off-Label Use of Atypical Antipsychotics: An Update
- Interventions to Reduce Inappropriate Prescribing of Antipsychotic Medications in People with Dementia
- Association of a Communication Training Program with Use of Antipsychotics in Nursing Homes
- Pyschological Services in Long-Term Care Resource Guide
- Alzha TV: A Smartphone App to Manage Depression, Anxiety and Agitation in Dementia Patients in Nursing Homes
- How Skilled Human Touch Can Transform Person-Centered Dementia Care
- Non-Pharmacological Activity Interventions
- Non-Pharmacological Activity Interventions
- DeGowin's Diagnostic Examination
- Non-pharmacological Interventions for Agitation in Dementia
- Evidence-based interventions to support people with Alzheimer's disease and their caregivers at home and in the community
Trainings & Webinars
- Dementia Dialogues: Five Sessions to Educate Individuals Caring for Persons who Exhibit Signs Associated with Alzheimer's Disease or Related Dementia
- Regional LAN: Dementia Support Across the Care Continuum
- WebEx: Non-pharmacological Approaches in Dementia Care
- Dementia Series 3: Three R’s: Re-Educate, Reevaluate, Reinvent The Pathway to a Successful Behavioral Management Meeting
- Alzheimer Caregiver and Educator Training Programs
- Assessing Risk and Managing Behaviors in Persons with Dementia
- Dementia Care Education & Consulting from Beatitudes Campus
Books, Articles & DVDs
- A Guide to the Management of Psychotic Disorders and Neuropsychaiatric Symptoms of Dementia in Older Adults
- Patient At Risk Form for Antipsychotic Medication Reduction
- The Confusion Assessment Method
- Excerpts from AMDA's Dementia in the Long Term Care Setting Clinical Practie Guideline
- Questions to consider in Interdisciplinary Team Review of Individual Dementia Care Cases
- Partnership to Improve Dementia Care in Nursing Homes State Coalition Provider Question Worksheet (Self-Assessment Tool)
- Provider Implementation Flow Diagram
- Psychoparmacologic Interdisciplinary Medication Review
- Sample Psychotropic Medication Policy and Procedure
- Partnership to Improve Dementia Care in Nursing Homes Suggestions for Provider Checklist
- American Geriatrics Society 2019 Updated AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults
- Antipsychotic Reductions in the Long Term Care Setting
- Drugs that May Cause Psychiatric Symptoms
- Habilitation Therapy
- Rational Managment of Irrationality: The Independent Drug Information Service Report on Harmful Effects of Antipsychotic Medications
- Living Fully with Dementia: Words Matter
- Sleuthing Troublesome Behaviors á la Serlock Holmes
- Transforming Long-Term Care Book Summary and Flier
- "Treat Me Like A Person, Because That's What I Still Am"
- The American Psychiatric Association Practice Guideline on the Use of Antipsychotics to Treat Agigitation of Psychosis in Patients with Dementia
Websites
- National Alzheimer’s and Dementia Resource Center
- CMS Quality Assurance & Performance Improvement Tools & Resources
- National Certification Board for Alzheimer & Aging Care
- GeriatricPain.org
- GeroCentral
- Psychologists in Long-Term Care
- APA Office on Aging
- National Council of Certified Dementia Practitioners
- ASCP
- Eden Alternative