Practice Guidelines-The John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing

• Advance directives: protecting patient's rights.

• Assessing cognitive function.

• Assessment of function: of critical importance to acute care of older adults.

• Delirium: strategies for assessing and treating.

• Depression in older adults.

• Discharge planning for the older adult.

• Evaluating excessive sleepiness in the older adult.

• Mealtime difficulties for older persons: assessment and management.

• Medication in older adults.

• Pain management.

• Preventing falls in acute care.

• Preventing pressure ulcers and skin tears.

• Urinary incontinence.

• Use of physical restraints in the acute care setting

University of Iowa Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Center, Research Dissemination Core-Practice Guidelines

• Bathing persons with dementia.

• Changing the practice of physical restraint use in acute care.

• Detection of depression in the cognitively intact older adult.

• Elder abuse prevention.

• Evidence-based protocol. Elderly suicide: secondary prevention.

• Evidence-based protocol. Exercise promotion: walking in elders.

• Evidence-based protocol. Individualized music.

• Evidence-based protocol. Interpreter facilitation for persons with limited English proficiency.

• Evidence-based protocol. Wandering.

• Fall prevention for older adults.

• Family bereavement support before and after the death of a nursing home resident.

• Hydration management.

• Improving medication management for older adult clients.

• Increasing physical activity in schools: kindergarten through eighth grade.

• Management of relocation in cognitively intact older adults.

• Non-pharmacologic management of agitated behaviors in persons with Alzheimer disease and other chronic dementing illnesses.

• Oral hygiene care for functionally dependent and cognitively impaired older adults.

• Persistent pain management.

• Prevention of deep vein thrombosis.

• Prevention of pressure ulcers.

• Progressive resistance training.

• Promoting spirituality in the older adult.

• Treatment of pressure ulcers.

• Wheelchair biking for the treatment of depression.