This practical guide brings together approaches designed for simulation-based education for the care of older adults. It fills a gap in the training for the care of older adults that working with Simulated Participants (SPs) can help to address. The book provides elements of best practice related to simulation methodology are synthesized with relevant clinical evidence related to caring for older adults.
This book will be an invaluable practical resource for educators, academics, and other health care providers with diverse levels of experience who work in health professions education and simulation training related to care of older adults. It offers support (guidance) to all health professions globally and is particularly pertinent to interprofessional practice. Users will gain the essential ingredients to confidently implement a safe and effective geriatric simulation program with older adult SPs.
PART 1 - INTRODUCTION.- A focus on older adults as simulated
participants.- Describing the work of older adult simulated participants.-
PART 2 - ELEMENTS.- A systematic approach to designing scenarios involving
older adult simulated participants.- Training older adult simulated
participants for role portrayal.- Fostering psychological safety in learning
conversations.- Supporting older adult simulated participants to provide
feedback to learners.- Program evaluation and quality improvement approaches
in older adult simulated participant methodology.- Research opportunities and
knowledge translation: saying Yes to simulation research for the care of
older adults.- PART 3 - IMPLEMENTATION.- Building or enhancing a simulated
participant program with and for older adults.- Working with volunteer older
adult simulated participants.- Embedding simulation for the care of older
adults into programs.- Faculty reflections - supporting older simulated
participants in giving feedback.- Innovations in older adult simulated
participant methodology.- Creative development opportunities for older adult
simulated participants.- PART 4 APPLICATIONS - Older Adult Care and
Assessment.- Assessing physical function in older adults: Target Learner
Group: Second year medical students.- Assessing falls risk in older adults:
Target Learner Group: Medical students completing geriatric training in
internal medicine clerkship.- Sexual history: The importance of social
history in guiding care of older adults: Target Learner Group: First year
medical students.- Falls assessment, prevention, and management with older
adults Target Learner Group: Physiotherapists.-. Supporting personal care for
older adults living with dementia: Target Learner Group: Healthcare providers
working with older adults-. Assessing and supporting management of an older
adult's swallowing post-surgery: Target Learner Group: Speech-language
pathology students-. Collaborating to promote the safety of older adults in
the community Target Learner Group: Police and Emergency Services-. Assessing
and supporting management of an older adults aphasia post-stroke: a
sequential simulation: Target Learner Group: Undergraduate and post
baccalaureate speech-language pathology students-. PART 5 APPLICATIONS -
Older Adult Care in an Acute setting: Trauma in an older adult: small
accidents, big injuries: Target Learner Group: Emergency department
team-. Older adult falls in the emergency department: Keeping everyone safe:
Target Learner Group: Emergency department and other hospital
teams-. Recognizing and responding to sepsis and delirium in an older adult
living in a care facility: Target Learner Group: Emergency medicine
trainees-. Recognizing and managing abuse and mistreatment of older adults
Target Learner Group: Emergency department team-. Toxicology emergencies in
older adults: slow is smooth, smooth is fast: Target Learner Group:
Pre-hospital physicians, paramedics, Emergency department and other hospital
teams-. Providing end-of-life care for an older adult in the emergency
department: Target Learner Group: Emergency medicine trainees and
doctors-. PART 6 APPLICATIONS - Older Adult Care: Advanced
Conversations-. Conversations about driving retirement with an older adult:
Target Learner Group: Fourth year medical students-. Goals of care
discussions at end-of-life with families and caregivers of older adults:
Target Learner Group: Family physicians-. Social determinants of health:
diabetes management in older adults: Target Learner Group: Pre-licensure
baccalaureate nursing students-. Counselling family members about an older
adult's test results and treatment plan: Target Learner Group: Master's level
speech-language pathology students-. An older adult with a malignant
melanoma: a sequential simulation Target Learner Group: Plastic and
reconstructive surgery trainees-. Telehealth opportunities and challenges:
recognizing abuse of an older adult during a telehealth consultation: Target
Learner Group: Third year medical students-. PART 7- Future Directions and
Possibilities-. Looking to the future of older adults as simulated
participants.
Cathy M Smith, PhD
Baycrest
Toronto, Canada
Nemat Alsaba, MBBS
Bond University
Australia
Lisa Guttman Sokoloff, MS
Baycrest
Toronto, Canada
Debra Nestel, PhD
Monash University
Melbourne, Australia
