WyCOA Infusion Units

Infusion Units are lecture materials featuring a film or power-point with teaching notes, discussion questions, and resources for additional reading assignments. 

*Certificates of Completion can be provided for CE reporting.

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Our collection includes:

Hold Your Breath- For Ethnogeriatrics
Hold Your Breath is a documentary with discussion questions that illuminates the pivotal role of cross-cultural communication in healthcare decision-making and the urgent need for cultural competence and diversity training in the healthcare professions.

Age of Champions
Age of Champions is a documentary with discussion questions sharing an uplifting story of five competitors who sprint, leap, and swim for gold at the National Senior Olympics.

Health Literacy and Older Adults
Health Literacy and Older Adults is a PowerPoint with teaching notes highlighting the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.

Aging Etiquette
Aging Etiquette is a PowerPoint with teaching notes on understanding and implementing respectful communication and interaction with older adults.

Oral Health
Oral Health is a PowerPoint with discussion questions created to help individuals understand the importance of oral health and how it relates to total physical health; understand the oral bacterial infection process; show and teach caregivers how to provide oral care for residents with compromised physical or mental abilities; and explain how nutrition/eating habits can impact the success of oral health.

Older Adults Driving
Older Adults and Driving has a 24 minute video available for check out and a PowerPoint with discussion questions about factors that can help contribute to safe driving for older drivers, and the resources that are available.

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*Please contact WyCOA at wycoa@uwyo.edu or call 307-766-2829 for more information.