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Training Materials for Professionals

Making Your Printed Health Materials Senior Friendly
Health information can be particularly difficult to understand and act upon, even for the most capable person. There are some special considerations when developing written materials for older people. Alterations to learning and memory may affect an older reader's ability to absorb content, and the way information is presented may need to accommodate the cognitive and physical changes that often accompany old age.
Making Your Website Senior Friendly
This tip sheet offers research-based guidelines that can help you create websites that work well for older adults, the fastest-growing group of Internet users. Besides sending and receiving email, older adults search the web for health, financial, and religious or spiritual information. They also use the Internet to shop, play games, perform genealogy searches, and book travel. As the baby boomers age, the number of older adults using the Internet will continue to grow, and web designers will increasingly be called on to tailor websites to this population.
Talking With Your Older Patient: A Clinician's Handbook
This essential guide for health professionals offers strategies for communicating effectively with older patients. Among the topics addressed in this 61-page publication are how to talk about sensitive issues, give bad news, and be aware of cultural differences.
There's No Place Like Home - For Growing Old
As part of the Federal Government’s National Institutes of Health, the National Institute on Aging (NIA) funds and conducts research related to aging, including how older people can remain independent. This NIA tip sheet introduces you to the kinds of help that you might want to consider so you can continue to live on your own. Where possible, we give you suggestions for free or low-cost help and include ways to identify benefits that might be available to you. A list of groups to contact for more detailed information is included at the end of the tip sheet. You can share this tip sheet with others in your family, and you can use it to begin talking about your needs—now and in the future.
Understanding Risk: What Do Those Headlines Really Mean?
“Risk” is the chance that something bad will happen—like catching the flu or being hit by a car when crossing the street. Risk does not mean that something bad will definitely happen.