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Pennsylvania Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (PA POLST) is a process that helps patients to receive the medical treatment they want, and avoid the medical treatments they do not want, when they are seriously ill or frail.

The PA POLST website offers resources on having the POLST conversation, a learning center, and self-paced education modules for continuing education credits in the POLST Self-Study section.

This toolkit was created by the BOLD Public Health Center of Excellence on Dementia Caregiving (PHCOE-DC). Funded by the CDC as part of the BOLD Act, PHCOE-DC aims to assist state, tribal, and local public health agencies in developing their dementia caregiving focused programming and initiatives.

The purpose of this toolkit is to provide potential strategies and interventions that public health agencies can implement to support and elevate the work of family dementia caregivers in their jurisdictions, that are consistent with the Healthy Brain Initiative Road Map.

This toolkit may be useful for all public health agencies as they set and pursue their dementia caregiving goals, but especially to public health departments that were awarded funding through the BOLD Infrastructure for Alzheimer’s Act as they implement their Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) strategies using the Healthy Brain Initiative Road Map as a guide.

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SAGE is a national advocacy and services organization for LGBT elders. Sage offers a multitude of services and supports including:
• Advocacy for LGBT Elders
• HIV & Aging Policy Action Coalition (HAPAC)
• National Resource Center on LGBT Aging, including resources related to dementia
• SAGE Hotline- 1-877-360-LGBT(5428). The SAGE LGBTQ+ Elder Hotline is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in English and Spanish, with translation in 180 languages.

The ADRC performs and coordinates AD-related clinical and research activities and is a core source of support (e.g., resources, patients, tissue, expert consultation for research, clinical and training activities) regionally and nationally.
Through outpatient evaluations, participants and their families receive state-of-the-art diagnostic assessments and contribute to the scientific study of Alzheimer’s disease.