VitalTalk Tips vs Safe Older Drivers

Having great communication skills makes a difference—your patients will understand their medical situation better, build trust with you faster, and you will be able to guide them to medical decisions that match their values. This app helps improve your communication skills with patients experiencing serious illness and their family members. Each tip can be utilized for your specific discipline and subspecialty. For clinicians in hospital medicine, oncology, cardiology, social work, nephrology, hepatology, chaplains, neurology, trauma, emergency medicine, primary care, pediatrics, palliative care and more. This app is made for you! We've complied the research and curated a special set of communication skill tips, focused on the moments where clinicians most often get stuck. Flip through the tips by topic (serious news, prognosis, family conferences, goals of care, and more), or just get a daily tip as a notification. Read the tip (it'll take less than 10 seconds), try it out, and over time, your practice will improve.

The American Geriatrics Society developed this app under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), with the goal of helping health care practitioners prevent motor vehicle crashes and injury to older adults. Health care practitioners caring for older adults are in a leading position to address and correct this public health concern at the individual patient and caregiver level. By adopting preventive practices—including the assessment and counseling strategies outlined in this app—clinicians can better identify older drivers at risk for crashes, help enhance their driving safety, and ease the transition to driving retirement if and when it becomes necessary.