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Oral Health & Social Determinants of Health (SDOH): Considerations for Older Adults

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Participants in this module will learn about shared strategies related to addressing SDOH factors to improve the oral health of older patients.

The SDOH Academy National Webinar Series (2023-2024)

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Summary: Health Centers across the country are invited to join the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Academy for a 4-part Webinar Series. These sessions will highlight promising practices and increase knowledge around incorporating and scaling...

Assessing Readiness to Incorporate SDOH into Health Centers

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Registration is NOW OPEN for The 2018 Social Determinants of Health Academy Click here to register. Please direct questions to Sharena Hagins at SHagins@gwu.edu The Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Academy is a 6-month HRSA-funded virtual training...

SDOH Academy 2021 "Breakthrough Series"

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Why reinvent the wheel? We’re not. Using our core competencies framework, the SDOH Academy is offering a “Breakthrough Series” of webinars and office hours where SDOH Academy faculty will help you “break through” the clutter to find the: resources...

Past Series: Developing an Environmental Scan of Social and Enabling Services for Older Adults

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About To improve health equity, it is important that Health Centers can access and address the social needs of the most vulnerable, especially older adults. Health centers can do this by performing an environmental scan around enabling or support services...

Lessons Learned: COVID-19 Health Literacy in Special & Vulnerable Populations

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Webinar on lessons learned related to addressing low levels of health literacy and the spread of misinformation about COVID-19.

Improving Rural Health Equity Learning Collaborative

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This learning collaborative will discuss strategies to enable patients in rural areas to successfully age in community by identifying and addressing their social determinants of health needs.

Improving the Quality of End of Life Care for Older Adults in Health Centers : Session 6 - Wrap Up

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Objectives Provide innovative models/programs of end of life care, palliative care, and hospice care. Identify potential models/programs that could be implemented in the health center.

Improving Quality of End of Life Care for Older Adults in Health Centers: Session 3- Advance Directives

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Objectives Discuss strategies to document advance directives of health center patients including the ‘living will’. Discuss importance of identifying a healthcare proxy or ‘medical power of attorney’. Provide examples of advance directive laws by state...

Improving the Quality of End of Life Care for Older Adults in Health Centers : Session 5 - Engaging with family (caregiver/family support)

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Objectives Discuss how to engage family members in end of life care decisions of health center patients. Provide strategies on working with health center patients and their family members/caregivers on making end of life decisions. Provide strategies on...

Improving the Quality of End of Life Care for Older Adults in Health Centers: Session 4 - End of Life models – palliative care; hospice

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Objectives Discuss the role of the primary care provider within the palliative care and hospice teams in caring for their terminally ill health center patient. Provide examples of palliative care plans that engage the health center provider, social...

Now Accepting Health Center Applications for Spring 2019 Learning Collaborative

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Improving Chronic Disease Management for Older Adults Living with Diabetes: A Practice-based Learning and Quality Improvement Approach Evidence is growing about the integral relationship between oral health and chronic diseases. There exist a bi...