Older Adults & Dementia Fundamentals Dementia: It’s Not Always Alzheimer’s – from the Mayo Clinic Geriatric Syllabus on Dementia – from AGS NIH Consensus Statement Differential Diagnosis of Dementing Diseases (July 1987) Current Research Task Force Says More Research Is Needed To Determine Usefulness of Routine Screening for Dementia – from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Studies suggest better ways to manage elderly hip fracture patients with delirium and end-stage dementia – from AHRQ Additional Resources Clinical Practice Guidelines for Early Detection, Diagnosis and Management of Dementia – from AGS, excerpted from the American Academy of Neurology The MacArthur Competency Assessment Tool-Proxy and the Healthcare Preferences Questionnaire: End of Life Care for Persons with Serious Mental Illness – from RWJF Family and Caregiver Counseling in Dementia: Medical Necessity – from the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry Position Paper on Informed Consent – from AGS Position Paper on Restraint Use – from AGS The Whole Brain Atlas – from the Harvard University Medical School Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Care Bookshelf – from ElderCare Online and ALZwell Caregiver Support << Back to Learners' Explorer Index