GRN 235 - useful web sites
AARP Internet Resources on Aging
- Browse: Law and Legal Issues
- Search
Aging and Disability Resource Center. Technical Assistance Exchange: Assessment Matrix
- Review full data for the matrix
- Browse ADRC site map for additional files
From the Alzheimer's Association: "Know Resident's Rights"
Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral Center From the National Institute on Aging
- News Releases
- Right column: Literature Search
Best Friends Model of Alzheimer's Care
From the Medical Library Association: "Senior Health Websites You Can Trust."
- scroll to bottom of page for web links to browse
Oregon DHS. Seniors and People with Physical Disabilities
- Browse | Administrative Rules
- Sign up | e-mail alerts
Quintura search engine
- Concept map on left: look for synonyms and related concepts
- Results on right change as you click through concept map
Quick database searches
Instructor: Catherine Zimmerman, Sylvania
Just click the link to run the search!
Search HealthSource Nursing/Academic for dementia patients and patients' rights
Search Legal Collection for dementia patients and patients' rights
Search Lexis-Nexis, under the Legal tab for case law and legal decisions
Search CINAHL (nursing and allied health publications) for dementia patients and patients' rights
Looking for the newest articles? In EBSCOhost databases, like those above,
- Verify | Sort = Date Descending
- So the most recent article will be at the top of the results
- So the most recent article will be at the top of the results
- Remove | Limit to Full Text
- So the result sets will include all articles which have been indexed, whether they are available in full text, or not
- So the result sets will include all articles which have been indexed, whether they are available in full text, or not
Articles from the American Journal of Bioethics on dementia
Search Strategies
Search strategically
- Set a search term to "SUBJECT" in a database search. This automatically narrows the search to relevant sources.
- Use descriptive terms and narrow to specific concepts
- Combine the search terms in unique ways
- Use an asterisk ( * ) to search on all endings of words.
- alzheimer* = alzheimer, alzheimer's, alzheimers
- ethic* = ethic, ethical, ethically, ethics
- legal* = legal, legality
| Possible Search Terms | alzheimer* | dementia |
| patient* | rights | autonomy |
| decision-making | ||
| consent | ||
| competence | ||
| care | standards | |
| protocols | ||
| code of conduct | ||
| law* | ||
| legal* | ||
| ethic* | ||
| elder* | aged | |
| seniors |
Consider that the newest items might be announced by news releases, on blogs or in news feeds.
But they may have not hit the mass media yet: this could be still a conversation mainly between researchers and scholars.
- Look for web sites of medical, or legal journals, to browse for the contents of their most recent issue
- Search the PCC Library databases. Most result lists are in date order, with the most recent articles at the top.
- Look for large organizations in the topic area, and look to see if they have a "news" or "issues" section