Geriatric Resources

Click below for recent PowerPoint presentations from our geriatrictians:

Advance Care Planning and Goals of Care
Aging America
Alzheimers
Design Template.ppt
Dizziness
Drugs for Older People: Basic Principles for Prescribing
Falls
Geriatrics for Orthopaedists
Geriatrics Update 2004
Hospice Basics
MU Principles of Geriatric Care
Palliative Care in the ICU draft 2
Post Acute Care for the Elderly
Principles of Pain Management in End of Life Care

Foundations that Support Geriatrics at MU

Donald W. Reynolds Foundation
The John A. Hartford Foundation


General Geriatrics Information

American Geriatrics Society
Geriatrics At Your Fingertips
National Institute on Aging
Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines (UCSF Index)
Stanford Geriatric Education Center


Information Especially Helpful for Students

American Geriatrics Society Students Section
Geriatrics at Your Fingertips

And MU medical students can take advantage of computer-based self-instruction modules on all student-designated computers in the library, PBL labs and in the student lounge. Go to labapps.umh.edu.


Geriatrics at MU

Ethics Consults

Frail Elderly Conference
Long Term Links Newsletter
Published by the Missouri Association of Long-Term Care Physicians and the MU Department of Family and Community Medicine
MU Department of Family and Community Medicine Geriatric Fellowship
Hip and Knee Surgery

Geriatric Assessment Instruments

Multiple Assessment Instruments at One Site
http://www.hartfordign.org/publications/trythis/index.html
http://www.upstate.edu/geriatric_education/assessment.html

General Assessment Instruments
Fulmer SPICES

Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS)
http://www.stanford.edu/~yesavage/GDS.english.short.score.html
http://www.hartfordign.org/publications/trythis/issue04.pdf

Folstein Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE)
http://www.hartfordign.org/publications/trythis/issue03.pdf
http://www.fpnotebook.com/NEU68.htm

Tinetti Balance and Mobility Assessment

PAIN Assessment

Hamilton Depression Scale (HAM-D)

Katz Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living (KATZ ADL)
http://www.hartfordign.org/publications/trythis/issue02.pdf
http://www.merck.com/pubs/mm_geriatrics/tables/4t3.htm

Lawton Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL)
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~drstall/iadl.html
http://www.merck.com/pubs/mm_geriatrics/tables/4t4.htm

Braden Scale for Predicting Pressure Sore Risk

Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI)

Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS)

Home Safety Assessment

Cardiac Risk Index (Goldman)

Cardiac Risk Index (Detsky)