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
226.	Multidisciplinary Education in Geriatrics & Aging	1993	P. Ruskin, E. Rogers, Balt. Vet. Admin. Med. Ctr, & Univ. of MD at Balt.		The purpose of this series of learning modules is to teach graduate and undergraduate students in the health sciences those basic concepts in geriatric care. For each discipline, information is provided on relevant changes brought about by the normal aging process, geriatric assessment, common problems encountered among the elderly, and how to deal with these problems.
227.	The Safety Wheel Program	1997	Department of Transportation		The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration over the past decade has made major efforts to enhance the safety of older drivers.
228.	Grief At School	2000	American Hospice Foundation		This manual is designed for school personnel who encounter students affected by any type of loss, especially death in the family. The manual includes instructions and tools for understanding grieving students at each grade level; for assessing the needs and resources of the whole school; for building and implementing a school-wide crisis plan; and for creating school-based programs for grieving students.
229.	Grief at Work	2000	American Hospice Foundation		This manuel addresses grief arising from the death of employees, the death of a family member of employees, and the long-term illness of employees or their family members. The spiral manual provides guidance for managers, human resource personnel and employee assistance professionals. Specific topics include corporate policies for grieving employees; crisis planning; helping the bereaved return to work; dealing with death at the worksite; the role of supervisors, human resource managers, and employee assistance professionals; and conceptual models of the grief process. The appendix includes a detailed outline for a six-week seminar that can be conducted for grieving employees in the workplace.
230.	The Book of Choices	2002	Mike Magee, MD	Self-help, Inspirational, Motivational and Personal Growth	The premise of this book is that our lives are simply an accumulation of the thousands of decisions, large and small, that we make every day.
231.	Pearls of Wisdom: A Harvest of Quotations From All Ages	1987	Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze	Inspirational, Philosophy, Quotations, Reference, Religion	A collection of sage words in a collection of the wisest sayings and most profound insights of our history.
232.	The Mozart Effect: Tapping the Power of Music to Heal the Body, Strengthen the Mind, and Unlock the Creative Spirit	1997	Don Campbell	Art Therapy, Music Therapy, Creativity, Genres & Styles, Inspiration & Personal Growth, Psychology	Stimulating, authoritative, and often lyrical, The Mozart Effect has a simple but life-changing message: music is medicine for the body, the mind, and the soul. Campbell shows how modern science has begun to confirm this ancient wisdom, finding evidence that listening to certain types of music can improve the quality of life in almost every respect. Here are dramatic accounts of how music is used to deal with everything from anxiety to cancer, high blood pressure, chronic pain, dyslexia, and even mental illness.
233.	Understanding & Combating: Elder Abuse in Minority Communities	1998	Archstone Foundation		The conference discussed what is abuse, what it is not, what is abuse in institutional settings, and about abuse of male elders among many other topics.
234.	Clinical Geriatrics Vol. 13 No.3	2005	American Geriatrics Society		Topics include (1) Making Sense Out of the Medicare Prescription Drug Plans (2) Pain Management at the End of Life (3) Botanical and Diet-Based Biological Therapies and Their Use by Older Persons and many other topics.
235.	Journal of the American Geriatrics Society Vol. 53 No. 3	2005	American Geriatrics Society		Topics include (1) Treatment of Depression Improves Physical Functioning in Older Adults, Surgical Outcomes for Patients Aged 80 and Older (3) Assisted Living Facilities and many other topics.
236.	A Journal of the American Geriatrics Society: Annuals of Long-Term Care Clinical Care - Clinical Care and Aging Vol. 13 No. 3	2005	American Geriatrics Society		Topics include (1) The Care of Dying Patients (2) Culture Change in Nursing Homes: An Ethical Perspective (3) 10 Ethical Principles in Geriatrics and Long-Term Care and many more topics.
237.	Journal of the American Geriatrics Society Vol. 53 No. 9	2005	American Geriatrics Society		Topics include (1) After Adoption - Disseminating the Hospital Elder Life Program (2) Efficacy of a Comprehensive Geriatric Intervention in Older Patients Hospitalized for Hip Fracture (3) The Association Between Oral Health and General Health & Quality of Life (4) The Intersection Between Geriatrics and Palliative Care
238.	Journal of the American Geriatrics Society Vol. 53 No. 8	2005	American Geriatrics Society		Topics include (1) Differing Patterns of Antiresorptive Pharmacotherapy in Nursing Facility Residents and Community Dwellers (2) The Effects of an Individualized Fall Prevention Program (3) Improving Physical Function & Blood Pressure (4) Antiaging Medicine & Mild Cognitive Impairment
239.	Journal of the American Geriatrics Society Vol. 53 No. 6	2005	American Geriatrics Society		Topics include (1) The Association between Obesity and the Frailty Syndrome in Older Women (2) Where Does Research Occur in Geriatrics and Gerontology (3) The Challenge of Diagnosing Pulmonary Embolism in Elderly Patients (4) The Effects of Megestrol Acetate Suspension for Elderly Patients with Reduced Appetite Following Hospitalization
240.	Journal of the American Geriatrics Society Vol. 53 No. 5	2005	American Geriatrics Society		Topics include (1) Capsaicin Troche for Swallowing Dysfunction in Older People (2) The Care of Patients with Dementia: A Modern Jewish Ethical Perspective (3) Chronic Cytomegalovirus Infection and Inflammation are Associated with Prevalent Frailty in Community-Dwelling Older Women
241.	Journal of the American Geriatrics Society Vol. 53 No. 7	2005	American Geriatrics Society		Topics include (1) Functional Incidental Training (2) Dementia and Alzheimer's Diseases Incidence in Relationship to Cardiovascular Disease (3) Benchmarks for Antibiotics Use and Cost in Long-Term Care (4) Reduction in Fear of Falling Through Intense Tai Chi Exercise Training
242.	Journal of the American Geriatrics Society Vol. 53 No. 10	2005	American Geriatrics Society		Topics include (1) Physicians "Missing in Action" (2) Disparities between Black and White Patients in Functional Impairment after Hospitalization for an Acute Illness (3) Relationship Between Serum Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 Levels and Alzheimer's Disease and Vascular (4) Haloperidol Prophylaxis for Elderly Hip-Surgery Patients at Risk for Delirium
243.	Clinical Geriatrics: A Clinical Journal of The American Geriatrics Society Vol. 13 No. 9	2005	American Geriatrics Society		Topics include (1) Dysphagia: Age is no Barrier (2) Health Promotion/Disease Prevention in Older Adults (3) Electroconvulsive Therapy in a Geriatric Heart Transplant Patient (4) Use of Psychotropic Drugs in Cerebrovascular Disease
244.	Clinical Geriatrics: A Clinical Journal of The American Geriatrics Society Vol. 13 No. 5	2005	American Geriatrics Society		Topics include (1) Tardive Dyskinesia (2) Management of Rising Prostate-Specific Antigen after Treatment for Localized Prostate Cancer (3) Nonvertebral Fractures Due to Postmenopausal Osteoporosis (4) Peripheral Arterial Disease and the Older Adult
245.	Clinical Geriatrics: A Clinical Journal of The American Geriatrics Society Vol. 13 No. 6	2005	American Geriatrics Society		Topics include (1) Pick's Disease (2) Approach to Monoclonal Gammopathy of Unknown Significance in Older Patient (3) Diabetes Mellitus (4) Psychostimulants in the Treatment of Depression in the Older Patient
246.	Clinical Geriatrics: A Clinical Journal of The American Geriatrics Society Vol. 13 No. 7	2005	American Geriatrics Society		Topics include (1) Pathologic Laughter and Crying in Multiple Sclerosis (2) Osteoarthritis (3) Diabetes Mellitus Part II (See Vol. 13 No. 6) (4) Involuntary Weight Loss in the Elderly
247.	Clinical Geriatrics: A Clinical Journal of The American Geriatrics Society Vol. 13 No. 8	2005	American Geriatrics Society		Topics include (1) Diogenes Syndrome (2) Overactive Bladder in the Geriatric Patient (3) Smoking and the Older Person (4) Addressing the At-Risk Older Driver (5) Subclinical Thyroid Disorders
248.	A Clinical Journal of the American Geriatrics Society: Annuals of Long-Term Care Clinical Care - Clinical Care and Aging Vol. 13 No. 6	2005	American Geriatrics Society		Topics include (1) Perioperative Care for Geriatric Patients (2) Pain Management in a Long-Tern Care Setting (3) Management of the Older Person with a Clinically Unrecognized Myocardial Infarction
249.	A Clinical Journal of the American Geriatrics Society: Annuals of Long-Term Care Clinical Care - Clinical Care and Aging Vol. 13 No. 5	2005	American Geriatrics Society		Topics include (1) Improving Transition and Communication Between Acute Care and Long-Term Care (2) Pharmacologic Options for Managing Psychosis in Parkinson's Disease (3) Futility at the Bedside (4) A Clinical Imperative for an Aging Population, Part III
250.	A Clinical Journal of the American Geriatrics Society: Annuals of Long-Term Care Clinical Care - Clinical Care and Aging Vol. 13 No. 7	2005	American Geriatrics Society		Topics include (1) Anemia, Fatigue, and Aging (2) Reducing Fall Risk in Long-Term Care Residents (3) The Role of Alternative Therapies in the Management of Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia, Part I, (4) Patient Information and Close Decisions (5) Q & A with the Expert on: Pressure Ulcers and Undernutrition