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Try This: Urinary Incontinence Assessment

Try This: Confusion Assessment Method (CAM)

Try This: Elder Abuse and Neglect Assessment

Try This: Caregiver Strain Index (CSI)

Try This: Beer’s Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in the Elderly

Try This: Alcohol Use Screening and Assessment

Try This: Horowitz's Impact of Event Scale

Try This: Preventing Aspiration in Older Adults with Dysphagia

Try This: Geriatric Oral Health Index

Try This: Immunizations for the Older Adult

Try This: Decision Making and Dementia

Try This: Assessing and Managing Delirium in Persons with Dementia

Try This: Avoiding Restraints in Persons with Dementia

Try This: Alcohol Use Screening and Assessment

Try This: Therapeutic Activity Kits

Try This: Assessing Pain in Persons with Dementia

Try This: Recognition of Dementia in Hospitalized Older Adults

Try This: Wandering in the Hospitalized Older Adult

Try This: Brief Evaluation of Executive Dysfunction: An Essential Refinement in the Cognitive Impairment

Try This: Communication Difficulties: Assessment and Interventions

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The goal of the Try This: Best Practices in Care for Older Adults series of assessment tools is to provide knowledge of best practices in the care of older adults that is:

• easily accessible
• easily understood
• easily implemented, and
• to encourage the use of these best practices by all direct care nurses

Try This, a publication of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, is a series of assessment tools where each issue focuses on a topic specific to the older adult population.

The content is directed to orient and encourage all nurses to understand the special needs of older adults and utilize the highest standards of practice in caring for the elderly.   

Each Try This issue is a 2-page document with a description of why the topic is important when caring for older patients on the first page, and an assessment tool that can be administered in 20 minutes or less on the second page. The series is accessible here online and also as hard copy.

Permissions: Please download and print these issues for your use. Permission is granted for photocopying and disseminating for educational, non-profit use only. Try This can only be reproduced in its entirety. If you plan to include any Try This issues in a publication please contact us for permission. In addition, if you wish to use only an assessment tool, you must contact that publisher directly for permission.

*Try This instruments are designed to be used as screening tools, not for diagnosis.

If you have any questions or comments, or would like to be notified when new issues of Try This are posted, please email Alexis Melendez at adm6@nyu.edu or call her at (212) 992-9416.