Health Information
Learning Modules with Video Clips
Web Resources
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Comments on this Website
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Some material available en Espaņol!

Health Information

• Dementia and Depression - what it is and how to help.
• Stress Reduction- ways to reduce stress in the lives of older adults, including discussions about managing your medications, and the stresses of acting as a caregiver.
• Physical Activity- its benefits, different types of exercises, and simple approaches to getting started.

For each topic, you can view ...

Slide presentations (available en español!).
• Video clips showing highlights from community education workshops.
• Guidelines for small group activities about the topic.

Learning Modules with Video Clips

• Interdisciplinary Teamwork- View video clips showing how a team of different health care professionals (nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy, respiratory care, social work, and speech and language pathology) talk to each other and with a stroke patient and his daughter after admission to a rehabilitation facility.
• Care for Older Adults - View video clips of a health care professional discussing issues of general aging, goals for therapy, and changes related to a specific diagnosis of dementia with an older adult, and her son who is her caregiver.

For each topic, you can view ...

• Goals and objectives for integrating this module into an interdisciplinary curriculum.
• Video clips illustrating key concepts in each learning module.
• Student study guides, faculty guides, and WebCT course templates for each module.

Web Resources

• List of web-based resources on topics related to health care and health education for older adults, interdisciplinary teamwork, cultural diversity, and community education.

Fair Use
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Acknowledgements
The materials on this site reflect the efforts of an interdisciplinary team of health professions faculty from Long Island University-Brooklyn Campus in New York City . Much of this work was supported by the Health Resources Services Administration, Grant #1D37HP00838 and from Long Island University-Brooklyn Campus.