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AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program – Interventions – Dementia Executive Summary

Interventions To Prevent Age-Related Cognitive Decline, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Clinical Alzheimer’s-Type Dementia – Executive Summary

Key Messages:

  • Most interventions showed no evidence of benefit to delay or prevent age-related cognitive decline, MCI, and/or CATD.
  • Some forms of cognitive training improve the performance of the specific target of training for adults with normal cognition, but little evidence supports transfer of benefits to other cognitive areas or reduced dementia incidence. Benefit for any form of cognitive training beyond 2 years is less certain.
  • Some types of physical activity, and vitamin B12 plus folic acid, may benefit cognitive performance in some areas.

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MHQP’s Adult Preventive Care Guidelines

About the MHQP Adult Preventive Care Guidelines

MHQP’s 2018 guidelines were developed by a collaborative group of  Massachusetts healthcare organizations. These are recommendations for providing preventive care to adult patients from the general population. These guidelines should not supplant clinical judgment or the needs of individual patients. These guidelines are intended as quality-practice recommendations and are not intended as a description of benefits, conditions of payment, or any other legal requirements of any particular health plan or payor. Each health plan or payor makes its own determination of coverage and benefits. In the event that these practice recommendations are inconsistent with any applicable laws or regulations, such laws or regulations take precedence.

HRET Culture of Safety Change Package

This change package is a summary of themes from the successful practices of high performing health organizations across the country. It was developed through clinical practice sharing, organization site visits and subject matter expert contributions. This change package includes a menu of strategies, change concepts and specific actionable items that any hospital can choose to implement based on need or for purposes of improving patient quality of life and care. This change package is intended to be complementary to literature reviews and other evidence-based tools and resources.

Dementia Friendly Massachusetts Initiative – Statement of Values

As more individuals and organizations recognize the need to make our communities work better for the growing number of people living with Alzheimer’s or a related disorder, and their families and friends (“care partners”), it is helpful to define what it means to work toward becoming a “dementia-friendly” community.

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Alzheimer’s Association’s Alzheimer’s Disease Facts & Figures

2022 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures is a statistical resource for U.S. data related to Alzheimer’s disease, the most common cause of dementia. Background and context for interpretation of the data are contained in the overview. Additional sections address prevalence, mortality and morbidity, caregiving, and use and costs of health care, long-term care and hospice. The Special Report examines what we have learned about the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease through research, and how we could identify and count the number of people with the disease in the future.

Care Guides for Families of People with Alzheimer’s disease

The Alzheimer’s Association, Massachusetts/New Hampshire Chapter has an array of resources for families and individuals at each stage of Alzheimer’s disease. These comprehensive guides allow families to address the specific issues they are currently experiencing. If you are not sure which guide is best for you, please call our 24/7 Helpline 800.272.3900.

What is the Cycle of Violence?

 

According to the AHA/ACHI Hospital Approaches to Interrupt the Cycle of Violence guide, exposure to violence significantly increases the likelihood of an individual being a perpetrator of violence or experiencing repeated violent injury in the future, creating an ongoing cycle of violence.

Prevention poses a challenge because violence occurs as part of a cycle of learned behaviors that are further perpetuated by an individual’s exposure to trauma. Though it may appear to be an intractable problem, violence can be prevented by addressing the underlying socioeconomic, environmental and behavioral risk factors that increase the likelihood that an individual will become a victim or perpetrator of violence.

Hospitals can play an important role at each level of prevention. By partnering with community stakeholders, hospitals can implement primary prevention approaches to address risk factors at the relationship, community and society levels and help prevent violence from occurring.

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Through the Eyes of the Workforce: Creating Joy, Meaning, & Safer Health Care

Workplace safety is inextricably linked to patient safety. Unless caregivers are given the protection, respect, and support they need, they are more likely to make errors, fail to follow safe practices, and not work well in teams. A new report from the Lucian Leape Institute looks at the current state of health care as a workplace, highlights vulnerabilities common in health care organizations, discusses the costs of inaction, and outlines what a healthy and safe workplace would look like. The report concludes with seven recommendations for actions that organizations need to pursue to effect real change.

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