Health Care Professional Resources and Links
Teaching/Learning Resources:
Clinical Practice Guidelines:
- Identification of Behaviours and Guidelines for Intervention
- Least Restraint: Maximizing Freedom in Residential Care
- Continence: Promotion and Maintenance
- Heat Stress: Planning for and Preventing in Residential Care
- Hydration: Promoting Fluid Intake and Preventing Dehydration
- Bowel Function: Promotion and Maintenance
- Continence: Promotion and Maintenance
- Delirium/Acute Confusion: Assessment and Care for Older Adults
- Stroke and TIA Detection: Initial and Ongoing Management: Residential
(Above documents are located on VCH’s Sharepoint website. Contact Vancouver Residential Practice Team, Paldeep Jawanda at paldeep.jawanda@vch.ca for more information.)
E-Learning Resources:
- Delirium: (CCRS Registration)
- Delirium Basics Learning Module
- Dementia (North Health Authority)
- Care for Elders: An Interactive Guide to the Treatment of Delirium
Other Educational Gerontological Resources:
- Care for Elders: An Interprofessional Modular for Geriatrics
- Delirium Resources
- Dementia Journey Website (for families and professionals)
- Phased Dementia Pathway for professionals
- National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly (NICE)
- Acute Care Geriatric Nurse Network (ACGNN)
- BC Dementia Service Framework
- Alzheimer Society of Canada
- The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing
- Canadian Coalition for Senior’s Mental Health (CCSMH)
- Clinical Practice Guidelines and Protocols in British Columbia