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Try This:® Series

A publication of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, the Try This Series is a set of assessment tools where each issue focuses on a topic specific to the older adult population. The goal of the Try This:® Best Practices in Nursing Care to Older Adults series of assessment tools is to provide knowledge of best practices in the care of older adults that is:

• easily accessible
• easily understood
• easily implemented, and
• to encourage the use of these best practices by all direct care nurses

Each Try This issue is a 2-page document with a description of why the topic is important when caring for older patients on the first page, and an assessment tool that can be administered in 20 minutes or less on the second page. The series is accessible online and also as hard copy.

The How To Try This Series

The How To Try This Series is a John A. Hartford Foundation-funded project provided to the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at New York University's College of Nursing in collaboration with the American Journal of Nursing, translates the evidence-based geriatric assessment tools in the Try This:® assessment series into cost-free, web-based resources including demonstration videos, and a corresponding print series featured in the AJN, developed to build geriatric assessment skills - the foundation for appropriate care of older adults.