This Website, created by the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons, provides detailed foot care guidelines for diabetic patients. A link to a pod cast on diabetes and feet is included. There are excellent color images of diabetic foot disorders.
This links to a Falls Tool Kit which contains instruments that can be used for the initial evaluation and management of a patient who experiences falls. It also provides educational materials to teach patients how to reduce their risk of falling. The toolkit development was supported by the Hartford Foundation through the American Geriatrics Society.
It is part of a set of tool kits developed for the Practicing Physician Education in Geriatrics project supported by a grant from the John A. Hartford Foundation through the American Geriatrics Society. The tool kits are intended to help physicians better understand the common 'Geriatric Syndromes' and contain educational materials, suggested guidelines, forms and tools for evaluation, diagnosis and treatment.
Although designed to teach physicians about falls risk assessment and risk reduction, these tools can also be used by registered nurses, and rehabilitation professionals.
Users have the option of clicking on individual tools or they can download the the complete toolkit.
This NIH-sponsored web link provides an excellent overview of heart failure and its causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment.
It includes a comprehensive glossary of terms.
An illustration of a male person demonstrates the signs of heart failure such as edema and pulmonary congestion.
This is a link to a published study (pdf) on the effects of type 2 diabetes on various types of brain aging in elderly men. The Honolulu-Asia Aging Study was funded by the NIH. CITATION: Kork, E.S.C., White, L.R., Scheltens, P., & Launer, L.J. (2006). Brain aging in very old men with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care, 29, p. 2268-2274.