Try This:® Series

Assessment Tools for Best Practices of Care for Older Adults

Try This ®Series

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The goal of the Try This:® Series of assessment tools is to provide knowledge of best practices in care of older adults.
Each tool encourages nurses to understand the special needs of older adults and to use best practices when caring for older adults.

Each Try This:® issue is a 2-page document with a description of why the topic is important when caring for older patients and an assessment tool that can be administered in 20 minutes or less.
Try This:® materials are screening tools and should not be used to make diagnoses.

Series

General Assessment Series

General Assessment Series

The General Assessment Try This:® Series offers assessment tools on essential care...

Specialty Practice Series

Specialty Practice Series

Highlighting assessment tools specific to specialty practice nurses in the care of older adults, this series…

Dementia Series

Dementia Series

This series is focused on tools and strategies in the assessment of older adults with dementia. Endorsed…

Quality Improvement Series

Quality Improvement Series

Healthcare organizations have undergone an evolution and…