Legal Principles & Decision Making in Practice
Practitioners working with older adults with serious mental health conditions may face situations where they need to navigate the informed consent process, guardianships, advance care directives, and the evaluation of competence and capacity. This self-paced course provides an introduction to these scenarios while also discussing associated ethical and legal implications. View course This training library […]
Late-Life Suicide Prevention
This webinar introduces the 5 Dimensions of Risk for Suicide in Late Life, including psychiatric conditions, physical illness, access to deadly means, social disconnection, and disability. Practitioners working with older adults with serious mental health conditions can benefit from this webinar’s overview of the epidemiology of late-life suicide, risk assessments, and promising clinical interventions. This […]
Improving Social Functioning and Health Self-Management in Older Adults with Serious Mental Illness
When working with older adults it is important for practitioners to distinguish the sometimes overlapping symptomatic expressions of dementia and serious psychiatric disabilities. This hour and a half webinar highlights diagnoses, symptoms, risk factors, and care practices for practitioners working with older adults who may have a serious psychiatric disability, dementia, or both. View video […]
Implementing a Behavioral Health Ambassador Program
The role of a behavioral health ambassador, their importance to a nursing facility, and tools for implementing this role are outlined in this webinar. Effectively recruiting, training, and maintaining these staff members is vital for the success of such a program to support nursing facility members with mental health and substance use challenges. View video […]
Gentler Journeys: Easing Transitions of Care for Patients with Serious Mental Illness
Transitions of care between acute care, nursing homes, and community settings can be difficult. This webinar shares challenges and supports for making discharges and these transitions as smooth as possible for older adults with serious mental health conditions. Communication between all members of the interprofessional team is vital for facilitating these transitions, and presenters discuss […]
Encouraging Healthy Aging with Serious Mental Health Conditions
Michelle Zechner provides an overview of healthy aging as it pertains to older adults with serious mental health conditions, and discusses how providers can maintain and improve quality of life for this population. The presentation educates providers on how to support healthy aging through system approaches, engaging in best practices, and specific practitioner strategies that […]
Effective Strategies for Managing Psychotropic Medications in Nursing Facilities
Sharing updates to Centers for medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) guidance, this webinar outlines requirements for convenience and chemical constraints, informed consent, gradual dose reductions, and critical element decisions for practitioners prescribing psychotropic medications in long-term care facilities. Best practices for psychotropic medication management and strategies for implementing a psychotropic medication stewardship team in a […]
Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) Implementation for Behavioral Health Equity in Nursing Facilities
Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) are introduced in this thirty-minute webinar along with the 15 action steps to support their implementation in long-term care facilities. The increased presence of individuals with psychiatric disabilities in nursing facilities indicates the need for incorporating these health equity promoting CLAS. View video This training library was supported by […]
Cognitive Behavioral Social Skills Training (CBSST) For Older Adults with Serious Mental Illness
Cognitive Behavioral Social Skills Training (CBSST) is an evidence based tool practitioners working with older adults with schizophrenia may utilize to support overall functioning. This one hour free webinar discusses the cognitive skills, social skills, and problem solving skills central to this training. View video This training library was supported by funding from the National […]
Clinical Confounds and Conflations: Serious Mental Illness, Dementia, or Both
When working with older adults it is important for practitioners to distinguish the sometimes overlapping symptomatic expressions of dementia and serious psychiatric disabilities. This hour and a half webinar highlights diagnoses, symptoms, risk factors, and care practices for practitioners working with older adults who may have a serious psychiatric disability, dementia, or both. View video […]