Mental Health and Aging Issues
This self-paced course from the Center for Aging & Disability Education & Research, part of Boston University’s School of Social Work, is designed for health and human service providers working with older adults, costs $120, and provides four hours of continuing education credits. This training provides an introduction to mental health concerns impacting older adults […]
Mental Health 101, Suicide Prevention & De-escalation
This session from the Center for Excellence for Behavioral Health in Nursing Facilities provides an overview of serious mental health conditions that you may see in a nursing home setting. The presenters include warning signs to look for in residents that may indicate suicidal ideation, as well as strategies for suicide prevention. De-escalation techniques that […]
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. The […]
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 webinar […]
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 from the Center for Excellence for Behavioral Health in Nursing Facilities 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 […]
Challenges and Evidence-based Practices for Older Adults with Serious Mental Illness in Long-term Care
For providers working with older adults with serious mental health conditions (SMHC), it is extremely important to understand how the increase of aging Americans will impact the care provided for this population in long-term care settings. Dr. Steve Bartels provides an overview of mental health care needs of this group along with co-occurring conditions that […]
Assessment of Older Adults and Persons with Disabilities
The target audience for this course are social workers and providers of health and human services looking to advance assessment skills to guide intervention planning in support of older adults with serious mental health conditions. This course highlights the significance of cultural humility and including consumers as partners in the assessment process. View course on […]
Artificial Intelligence and Geriatric Psychiatry: Developing New Paradigms
This webinar introduces the emerging presence of AI-based technology in geriatric psychiatric care, including its potential impacts on the diagnosis, intervention, and monitoring of serious mental health conditions for older adults. Specifically discussed is the role of digital phenotyping in the prevention and early detection of late-life psychiatric disabilities. Gaps and opportunities for artificial intelligence […]
An Overview of Bipolar Disorder for Nursing Facility Staff
This 2023 webinar from the Center for Excellence for Behavioral Health in Nursing Facilities provides nursing facility staff with an overview of the types of Bipolar Disorder, signs and symptoms of mania and depression, and both pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions for individuals with Bipolar Disorder. Presenters educate nursing facility operators on how to best prepare […]