Cathy M. Smith & Nemat Alsaba 
Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Geriatric Simulation [PDF ebook] 
A Focus on Older Adults as Simulated Participants

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 adult’s 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, Ph D
Baycrest
Toronto, Canada

Nemat Alsaba, MBBS
Bond University
Australia

Lisa Guttman Sokoloff, MS

Baycrest
Toronto, Canada

Debra Nestel, Ph D
Monash University
Melbourne, Australia