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Alzheimer's AssociationThe Alzheimer's Association is the leading, global voluntary health organization in Alzheimer's care and support, and the largest private, nonprofit funder of Alzheimer's research. AgingCare.com: The Community for CaregiversAgingCare.com aims to enhance the lives of caregivers by creating the most expansive community of support, easy access to scrutinized resources, cutting edge product information and unique, and original content to assist them in making the most informed choices for the elderly. ChangingAging.org ChangingAging.org is a platform developed by Dr. Bill Thomas to attack conventional attitudes towards aging and to provide positive, growth-oriented alternatives for a life worth living. ConsultGeriRN.orgConsultGeriRN.org is the evidence-based geriatric clinical nursing website of The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, at New York University's College of Nursing. ConsultGeriRN.org, an online resource for nurses in clinical and educational settings, is endorsed by the National Gerontological Nursing Association (NGNA), the American Association for Long Term Care Nursing (AALTCN), The National Association Directors of Nursing Administration in Long Term Care (NADONA), and others. Creating Aging-Friendly CommunitiesThe CDC Healthy Aging Research Network & Creating Aging-Friendly Communities offers the Environmental and Policy Change for Healthy Aging Conference Series. This 4-part series consists of online learning modules followed by interactive webinars. Hartford Institute for Geriatric NursingThe HIGN provides electronic web access to an impressive collection of resources that are relevant to practicing nurses, students, faculty, administrators, managers, staff development educators and advanced practice nurses. Visitors to the website (http://hartfordign.org) will find excellent teaching materials, standardized assessment tools (Try This), programming designed to improve care to hospitalized older adults (NICHE), and a clinical website with evidence-based content on elder care and an online gerontological nursing review course (ConsultGeriRn). The HealthCare Training CenterThe HealthCare Training Center offers Geriatric training courses, products, and services, such as Geriatric practice management training and software and Geriatric billing and coding manuals. Kidney Early Evaluation Program (KEEP)Some of the tools/resources available to you at the National Kidney Foundation's KEEP Health Care Professionals resource page include:
Long-Term Care Resource Center Since 1989, the Long-Term Care Resource Center at the University of Minnesota has been a focal point for research, technical assistance, and dissemination of information to improve the long-term care and long-term support services for people with disabilities, particularly seniors. This website provides information about current and recent Resource Center projects, and posts publications, reports, findings, and, in some instances, news releases and popular press articles. Visit "Research Areas" on the left side of the page to browse through the various publications, measures, publications, and research topics available. Montana Geriatric Education Center As the number of seniors with multiple health problems increases there is a growing shortage of prepared care providers. The Montana Geriatric Education Center (MTGEC), located at the University of Montana, is responding to the growing shortage of prepared geriatric care providers need by providing geriatric education and training for Montana health professionals, higher education faculty, and health professions students. The internet and the state-wide video-conferencing network allow MTGEC to reach out to rural areas at low cost. For more information about the MTGEC and educational activities, please visit the MTGEC website at http://mtgec.umontana.edu. The Resilience Scale The Resilience Scale is considered to be the most accurate instrument currently available to measure resilience. Other instruments, based on one theory or another, claim to measure something that they call resilience. On the other hand, the Resilience Scale is the result of actual interviews with real people about their experience in successfully dealing with adversity in life. Thus the Resilience Scale provides the most accurate measurement available for this important psychological factor. This is why for almost two decades the Resilience Scale has received strong reliability and validity support from scientific research. |