Tool Box

NEW! Anti-Elderspeak Language Guide

Advance Directives

Caring Info: How to Create Your Advance Directive

Five Wishes

Video: How one may approach the discussion about feeding tubes

Video for families to watch BEFORE having the conversation about advance directives with a provider

Resource for families to better understand advance directives, state specifics, etc

Navigating Mortality: Cake: Create a Free End of Life Plan 

Planning Assistance: PREPARE

POLST

Anxiety

Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale - 7 item

Geriatric Anxiety Inventory 

Geriatric Anxiety Scale (version 2)

PSWQ / PSWQ-A: Penn State Worry Questionnaire

Caregiving

APA Family Caregivers Briefcase

Connecting with Caregivers

Is It Normal Memory Loss or Early Dementia? (AARP)

10 Early Signs and Symptoms of Alzheimer's (Alzheimer's Association)

Cognition

Alzheimer's Disease - 8-item screen

Assessment Workshop – Society of Clinical Geropsychology

Executive Function Assessment

Mini-Cog

Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) Basic

MoCA Basic Instructions

MoCA Instructions - English

MoCA - English

MoCA - Spanish

MoCA Instructions - Spanish

MoCA - Blind

MoCA Instructions - Blind

St. Louis University Mental Status (SLUMS)

Decisional Capacity

Assessment of Older Adults with Diminished Capacity: A Handbook for Psychologists

Assessment of Older Adults with Diminished Capacity: A Handbook for Lawyers

Delirium and Dementia

2-Item Ultra-Brief (UB-2) Delirium Screen

4AT

Confusion Assessment Method (CAM)

3-Minute Diagnostic Interview for Confusion Assessment Method (CAM)

Nursing Delirium Screening Scale

Managing Older Patients with Cognitive Impairment: A Guide for Primary Care Providers

Now What? Next Steps After a Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease or Other Dementias

Assessing Cognitive Impairment in Older Patients: A Guide for Primary Care Physicians

Teepa Snow - Dementia Care Resources

Video: Potential Causes of Behavioral Changes with Dementia (negative, without text overlay)

Video: Potential Causes of Behavioral Changes with Dementia (positive, without text overlay)

Video: Potential Causes of Behavioral Changes with Dementia (negative, with text overlay)

Video: Potential Causes of Behavioral Changes with Dementia (positive, with text overlay)

Video: Common Behavioral Changes in Dementia (without text overlay)

Video: Common Behavioral Changes in Dementia (with text overlay)

Dementia Care Planning Toolkit

Depression

Geriatric Depression Scale - 15 item, English

Geriatric Depression Scale - 15 item, Spanish

Geriatric Depression Scale - 30 time, English

Patient Health Questionnaire - 9 item, English

Patient Health Questionnaire - 9 item, Spanish

Elder Abuse

Elder Abuse Suspicion Index (EASI)

Use of the Elder Abuse Suspicion Index © (EASI) Screening Tool and Adult Protective Services (APS) Specialists in a Clinical Setting

Elder Assessment Instrument (EAI)

Discussing Screening for Elder Abuse at Primary Health Care Level

Elder Abuse Warning Signs

Facts on Elder Abuse

Protecting Against Abuse - Spanish

Protecting Against Abuse

Grief and Loss

The Brief Grief Questionnaire (BGQ)

Caregiver Grief Scale

Center for Complicated Grief

Core Bereavement Item Scale (CBI) 

Inventory of Complicated Grief

Prolonged Grief Disorder-13 (PG-13)

Health Literacy

Improving Health Literacy for Older Adults

Medicare Annual Wellness Visit Tools

St. Louis Rapid Geriatric Assessment (RGA)

St. Louis Caregiver Wellbeing Scale

St. Louis University RGA Training Videos

Medicare Annual Wellness Visit Webinar (1-26-17)

Mobility

Johns Hopkins #everyBODYmoves Tools

Johns Hopkins Highest Level of Mobility (JH-HLM) Scale

Katz Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living (ADL)

The Lawton Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) Scale

Measuring Physical Fitness of Older Adults

Nutrition

Council on Nutrition Appetite Questionnaire

Pain

Pain Assessment for Older Adults

Pain Assessment Tool

PTSD

PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5) 

Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale for DSM-5 (CAPS-5) 

Sensory Changes

Communicating with Your Hard-of-Hearing Patient

Spiritual Needs

Religious Struggle Screening Protocol

R-COPE

Substance Use and Medication Misuse

Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT)

WHO: The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test Guidelines for Use in Primary Care

Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT-C)

FAQs about AUDIT-C for Clinicians

Cannabis Use Disorder Identification Test-Revised (CUDIT-R)

Review of the four item Morisky Medication Adherence Scale (MMAS-4) and eight item

Issue Brief 3: Screening and Preventive Brief interventions for Alcohol and Psychoactive Medication Misuse/Abuse

Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test-Geriatric Version (MAST-G)

Short MAST-Geriatric Version (SMAST-G)

Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)

Senior Alcohol Misuse Indicator (SAMI) Tool

Seniors in Sobriety

Single Question Alcohol Use Screener

SMART Recovery

The Basics of the STOPP/START Criteria

SAMHSA: Substance Abuse Among Older Adults

Women for Sobriety