The Washington DC Area Geriatric Education Center Consortium

These materials are for the use of WAGECC Faculty only.

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	Title	Year	Author	Related Subject	Description
201.	Taking Care After 50	2000	Harvey Jay Cohen, M.D.	Aging, Diet, Health, Fitness, Elderly, Health Self-Care, Older People	It's never too late to start taking better care of yourself. Study after study has proven that -- no matter what your age -- by taking charge of your health and making even small lifestyle changes, you can help prevent disease and disability and improve the quality of your life. Taking Care After 50 shows you how.
202.	The Association of Directors of Geriatrics Academic Programs: Geriatric Medicine Training and Practice in the U.S. at the Beginning of the 21st Century Summary Report July 2002	2002	American Geriatrics Society		Since the early 1990s, the Association of Directors of Geriatric Academic Programs (ADGAP) has provided a forum for geriatric program directors to support education and research programs in US medical schools. ADGAP fosters leadership skills among academic geriatricians to ensure the field’s continuation and growth.
203.	Facing Death: Images, Insights, and Interventionsd Interventions	1991	Sandra L. Bertman	Counseling, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Medical, Nursing, Mental Health, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Terminally Ill, Cultural Studies	Facing Death is an extraordinary resource for health care professionals and teachers, religious leaders, and for anyone either contemplating death in the abstract or facing it personally or as a friend or relative of someone with a fatal illness.
204.	The Grieving Child: A Parent's Guidede	1992	Helen Fitzgerald	Bereavement in children, Child Care, Parenting, Child Development And Rearing, Children and death, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Grief in children, Psychological Aspects Of Bereavement	This excellent book, written by the director of a grief program in a community health center, is intended as a guide for parents seeking to explain the death of a parent, relative, friend, or even a pet to a child.
205.	Alone...But Not Forgotten	2000	Alzheimer's Association		Community involvement to help identify and assist the estimated 800,000 Americans who currently live alone with dementia.
206.	Improving Palliative Care for Cancer	2001	National Academy Press	Cancer, Cancer Care Nursing, Health Policy, Hospices, Medical, Nursing, Oncology, Palliative Treatment, Terminal Care	Builds on and takes forward an agenda set out by the 1997 IOM report Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life. Identifies the special needs of cancer patients and the importance of the clinical and research establishment involved in cancer care to take a leadership role in modeling the best quality care from diagnosis to death for all Americans.
207.	Grief and the Healing Arts: Creativity as Therapyty as Therapy	1999	Sandra L. Bertman	Arts, Counseling, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Psychology	Doka states, "This book is a rare find, one that truly does show us ways to use the healing arts to help grievers transcend loss. Every and any therapist or educator will gain so much of value here from practical techniques to soaring theoretical insights. Grief and the Healing Arts is on its way to becoming a classic. It is a must have book."
208.	Means to a Better End: A Report on Dying in America Todayn Dying in America Today	2002	Last Acts National Program	Death, Dying, Social Science, Sociology	This book highlights the important work that statewide coalitions have been doing and makes important recommendations for future action.
209.	Health Services Research Vol. 36 No. 1 Pt. 1No. 1 Pt. 1	2000	Stephen Shortell, Ph.D.		Topics include (1) Setting a Research Agenda for Medical Errors and Patient Safety (2)Organizational Economics and Health Care Markets - industry data - Industry Overview (3) Studying the Effects of Health Plan Competition: Are Available Data Resources up to the Task? - analysis data - Industry Overview and many other topics.
210.	Consumer Consortium on Assisted Living: Assisted Living in Your Community	2003	Consumer Consortuim on Assisted Living		Written for local governments, planning boards, developers, architects, etc., takes the reader through the steps of assisted living planning & development, and provides questions to assess the impact of an assisted living residence on the community. It also covers ways local government can utilize information to foster development of affordable assisted living.
211.	Geriatric Education Centers: Fiscal Year 1999l Year 1999	2000	Health Resources Services Administration Bureau of Health Professions
212.	WAGECC: Curriculum & Activities Guide	1998	WAGECC		This major program activity designs and delivers geriatric education to health professions educators from universities, colleges, and education departments of acute and chronic health care institutions, through a structured Professional Development Program.
213.	Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology and Long Term Care Gerontology Center: Catalog of Assessment Techniques		Columbia University Faculty of Medicine and New York State Office of Mental Health		The Comprehensive Assessment and Referral Evaluation (CARE) is a semi-structured interview technique covering psychiatric, medical and social problems and service utilization of the elderly.
214.	Sensitizing People to the Processes of Aging: The In-Service Educator's Guide	1978	Marvin Ernst and Herbert Shore	Aged, Care, Geriatric Nursing, Homes for the Aged, Study and Teaching	The authors developed activities to help people experience some of the sensory changes that older adults may experience.
215.	A Rural-Urban Transportation Interface Model	1995	Central Plains Area Agency on Aging	Aged, Kansas, Planning, Rural Transportation, Transportation, Urban Transportation	The goal of the Senior Transportation Program was for a project team to develop and implement innovative model transportation programs to meet special needs of older persons, particularly the most vulnerable who may be at-risk of institutionalization without transportation.
216.	Clinical Geriatrics: A Clinical Journal of The American Geriatrics Society Vol. 12 No. 8	2004	American Geriatrics Society		Topics include (1) Aortic Dissection in the Elderly: Raise That Clinical Index of Suspicion (2) Erectile Dysfunction and Cardiovascular Disease (3) Tuberculosis: An Old Disease Returns and many more topics.
217.	A Journal of the American Geriatrics Society: Annuals of Long-Term Care Clinical Care - Clinical Care and Aging Vol. 12 No. 6	2004	American Geriatrics Society		Topics include (1) Evaluation and Management of Insomnia in the Institutionalized Elderly (2) Weight Loss in Advanced Alzheimer's Disease, Part II: Interventions (3) Osteoporosis in the Aging Male and many more topics.
218	A Journal of the American Geriatrics Society Vol. 52 No. 6	2004	American Geriatrics Society		Topics include (1) Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing in Ontario Community-dwelling Older Adults and Nursing Home Residents (2) Adult Immunization in University-based Primary Care and Specialty Practices (3) Effects of the Balanced Budget Act on Medicare Home Health Utilization and many more topics.
219.	A Journal of the American Geriatrics Society Vol. 52 No. 5	2004	American Geriatrics Society		Topics include (1) Resistance and Agility Training Reduce Fall Risk in Women Aged 75 to 85 with Low Bone Mass (2) Transitional Care of Older Adults Hospitalized with Heart Failure (3) Depression after Stroke and many more topics.
220.	A Journal of the American Geriatrics Society Vol. 52 No. 7	2004	American Geriatrics Society		Topics include (1) Functional and Cognitive Consequences of Silent Stroke on Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging in an Elderly Population (2) Physical Activity, Exercise, and Inflammatory Markers in Older Adults (3) Anticoagulant Use for Atrial Fibrillation in the ELderly and many more topics.
221.	Optometric Gerontology: A Resource Manual & Slides	1990	Sheree J. Aston, Denise A. DeSylvia & Gary L. Mancil		The modular text is designed in a detailed outline format containing suggested lecture content, audiovisual materials and resources, possible experiential learning activities, references, and suggested readings.
222.	Behavior Management in the Nursing Facility: Staff Development Resource Kit (includes video)	1993	Beverly Foundation		Behavior Management in the Nursing Facility is a program that introduces mangers and staff to the essential insights and skills of behavior management.
223.	The District of Columbia Department of Health Diabetes Surveillance Report 2004	2004	Department of Health		This report provides information about the prevalence, mortality, complications, risk factors and costs of the disease in the city.
224.	A Journal of the American Geriatrics Society Vol. 53 No. 2	2005	American Geriatrics Society		Topics include (1) Creating a Teaching Geriatric Service (2) Instruments for the Assessment of Pain in Older Persons with Cognitive Impairment (3) A Cost-Benefit Analysis of External Hip Protectors in the Nursing Home Setting and many more topics.
225.	Coming of Age: Federal Agencies and the Longevity Revolution	1999	U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services	Aged and Congresses	The purpose of the symposium was to advance a federal policy and program agenda related to older Americans and their families that met the needs of a changing aging population in the 21st century.