Tools for Practice

Our clinical team has identified protocols, advanced practices, and assessment and evaluation tools to help support your practice.
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Dementia
Alzheimer Society of Canada
The Alzheimer Society of Canada website is bilingual and offers information and resources for individuals, families and health... read more...
Alzheimer's Disease (Living with Grief Series)
Covers a medical overview of Alzheimer's and other dementias, programs and services for patients and caregivers, grief, hospice... read more...
Assessing Pain in Older Adults with Dementia
A tool for assessing pain with cognitively impaired older persons and information on its use. Published by the Hartford Institute... read more...
BMC Geriatrics
BMC Geriatrics is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of the health... read more...
Caregiving Strategies for Older Adults with Delirium, Dementia and Depression
This best practice guideline focuses on assisting all nurses (RNs and RPNs) who provide care to clients with delirium, dementia... read more...
Caring for Seniors With Alzheimer's Disease and Other Forms of Dementia
One of two related studies released today by Canadian Institute of Health Information. Studies found that informal caregivers... read more...
Center on Age & Community
The University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee's Center on Age and Community have a variety of excellent resources for health care... read more...
Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly – Recognition, Diagnosis and Management
This guideline summarizes current recommendations for recognition, diagnosis and longitudinal management of cognitive impairment... read more...
Dementia
This 40-minute powerpoint presentation provides an overview of the diagnostic criteria, prevalence, screening methods and... read more...
Dementia Gateway: SCIE Dementia web resource
SCIE is an independent charity, funded by the Department of Health and the devolved administrations in Wales and Northern... read more...
HIV / AIDS
Neurological diseases
Renal failure
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