Courses and Case Studies

The following listing includes courses and case studies developed by the Hartford Institute in collaboration with a panel of geriatric experts, the Oral Health Nursing Education and Practice Initiative (OHNEP) and the NICHE Program.  Please visit this page for updated content.

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COA-HC-RN: Health Promotion in the Home Care Setting

This course will help practitioners understand the importance of health literacy on health promotion in home care and how to best work with adult learners.

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COA-HC-RN: Dementia, Delirium, and Depression in Older Adults in the Home Care Setting

This course covers a wide range of information pertaining to dementia, delirium, and depression in older adults. This includes the etiology, risk factors, and signs and symptoms of depression, dementia, and delirium; common screening tools used to assess these three conditions, and non-pharmacological and pharmacological treatments of the conditions in older adults.

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COA-HC-RN: Chronic Health Conditions Among Older Adults in the Home Care

This course describes the guiding principles for managing multiple chronic conditions in home care, identifies the risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) in older adults, and explores how the pharmacologic management of CHD risk factors, namely DM, differs in older adults compared to younger adults.

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Care of Older Adults in the Long-Term Care Setting (COA-LTC) Series

This series was created to ensure that all healthcare team members have the knowledge to care for older adults across the spectrum of long-term care. These courses promote team-based, coordinated, person-centered, evidence-based care for older adults in the long-term care setting.

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