For Professional Healthcare Providers

Links here are available for healthcare providers; not only physicians specializing in Family Practice, Geriatrics, Internal Medicine, Neurology,or Psychiatry; Advanced Nurse Practitioners, or Clinical Nursing Specialists in Gerontology; Social Workers, but also general practitioners, who might need specialized information regarding their elderly patients. General geriatric clinical information is presented for all healthcare providers; specific sections are offered for researchers and clinicians as well.

 

Geriatric Clinical Information	Clinical Assessment Tools	Professional Presentations
UI Clinical Resources	Public Policy Briefs	Social Workers Information
General Information

Also see the section for Professionals on our links page for more information.

• The University of Iowa Hardin Library for the Health Sciences-The Clinical Corner from Hardin Library provides up-to-date clinical information to the university community.  Developed in collaboration with the Department of Family Medicine, Clinical Corner provides university health professionals and students with fast and easy access to clinical information resources, whether the users are in a classroom, clinic exam room, hospital ward, office, or at home.

 

• National Institute of Mental Health: This section offers information on RFAs, RFPs, Program Announcements, training opportunities, and job listings. Also included are special webpages on the NIMH Suicide Research Consortium. In addition you will find special reports and other publications, either downloadable or online.
  http://www.nimh.nih.gov/research-funding/index.shtml
  
  

• The nation’s first state-by-state “report card” on end-of-life care compiled by Last Acts, the nation’s largest coalition working for better care and caring near the end of life. The report card, titled “Means to a Better End: A Report on Dying in America Today” took a year to complete. An interactive special report, including research findings, is available on The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation website.
  http://www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?id=15972
  

• National Institutes of Health is making information widely available to investigators working on sensitive biomedical, behavioral, clinical or other types of research at this Certificate Kiosk.
  grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/coc/index.htm
  

• The Polisher Research Institute library catolog contains 8,500 volumes and over 200 journals and pamphlets. It is one of the most extensive resources on gerontology and aging in the United States. To search the catalog, vist their website at:
  www.abramsoncenter.org/PRI
  

• Trends in Causes of Death Among the Elderly. Aging Trends No. 1. 8 pp.
  http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ahcd/agingtrends/01death.pdf
  

• Trends in Vision and Hearing Among Older Americans. Aging Trends No. 2. 9 pp
  http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ahcd/agingtrends/02vision.pdf
  

• The Oral Health of Older Americans. Aging Trends No. 3. 8 pp.
  http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ahcd/agingtrends/03oral.pdf
  

• The Changing Profile of Nursing Home Residents: 1985-1997. Aging Trends No. 4. 8 pp
  http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ahcd/agingtrends/04nursin.pdf
  

• The Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality AHRQ archives all of their articles
  www.ahrq.gov/news/enewsix.htm

• Repositories that have the actual geriatric assessment instruments themselves available along with instructions for use by healthcare practitioners include:
  (1) Merck Institute of Aging Health professional toolkits http://www.gericareonline.net/tools/index.html
  

  (2) National Library of Medicine Health Services/Technology Assessment Text
  hstat.nlm.nih.gov/hq/Hquest

• University of Florida Geriatric Education teaching cases
  http://www.med.ufl.edu/med/gec/
  

• Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery Multdisciplinary Education in Geriatrics and Aging website
  cpmcnet.columbia.edu
  

• The University of Iowa Healthcare has a digital library of educational materials for patients including common problems, and for healthcare providers, including multimedia textbooks, teaching files, continuing education materials, and patient simulations. www.vh.org

• PUTTING RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE: This website comprises publications from the National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH] about the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illnesses. The section offers research reports and other valuable information to keep you up-to-date on the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. Also included are materials you can use to help educate your patients about their disorders and patient information in Spanish; funding opportunities; reports from the Surgeon General among others.
  www.nimh.nih.gov/
  

• Georgetown University's Center on an Aging Society<- “Prescription Drugs: A Vital Component of Healthcare” data profile is now available on The Center on an Aging Society website. Past data profiles include “Chronic and Disabling Conditions” and “Young Retirees and Older Workers.”
  ihcrp.georgetown.edu/agingsociety/profiles.html
  
  

• "A Practical Guide to Alzheimer's, Dementia, and Driving."
  Assessing concerns about driving behavior, monitoring behavior, transitioning from driver to passenger, and other topics. http://www.thehartford.com/alzheimers/?NT-wwwHomePage-cid=1026472550055
  
  

• Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders (ACOVE)- The project developed a method of identifying a community-based sample of vulnerable elders, selected clinical conditions for quality measurement, and developed an evidence-based set of 236 quality-of-care process indicators to evaluate the care provided to vulnerable elders.
  http://www.rand.org/health/projects/acove/
  
  

• Clinician Interview Based Impression Assessment Tools
  http://www.alz.org/professionals_and_researchers_conducting_an_assessment.asp
  
  

• The Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality AHRQ Article Archives
  www.ahrq.gov/news/enewsix.htm
  
  

• A collection of books, videos, websites
  www.asaging.org
  
  

• World Wide Web Resources for Social Workers: This website contains over 67,000 links to technical and policy reports, scholarly journals and newsletters, articles, government agencies, educational institutions, professional organizations and more. The site is sponsored by New York University’s Ehrenkranz School of Social Work and the Division of Social Work and Behavioral Science, Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
  www.nyu.edu/socialwork/wwwrsw

Public Policy Briefs

• University of California at Berkley publications - SPECIAL SERIES: STRATEGIC PLANNING ON AGING IN CALIFORNIA. Brian Kaskie, our public policy director is one of the authors of several of the briefs.
  http://cssr.berkeley.edu/research_units/casas/documents/CAStrategicPlan.pdf
  
  

• Iowa Hospital Association Position Papers
  Includes positions on State and Federal issues including worker shortage, Medicaid equity, and access to services in rural Iowa.
  www.ihaonline.org/govrelations/position/position.shtml

General Information

• Sci-Quest- biological sciences, health sciences, physical sciences, earth &
  space sciences, and engineering sciences
  www.sciquest.com

• Harte Barristers medical links-Ontario
  http://www.hartelaw.com/link_medical.htm

• Psychiatric Times
  www.psychiatrictimes.com

• Med InfoSource
  www.medinfosource.com

• Mental Health Online Resource
  www.mhsource.com