2-Day-Geriatric Conference – Kiplee Bell Morris

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Are you keeping up with the current recommendations and guidelines?

No matter your specialty, you MUST know how to address the unique concerns of the older adults under your care. Geriatrics is a field in and of itself, but many of us haven’t had extensive training on the nuances and complexities that make treatment challenging. In this comprehensive program, geriatric expert, Susann Varano, MD, will guide you through the normal and abnormal changes of the aging mind and body, providing you with the knowledge that will improve the care you provide. Susann is passionate about her work and looks forward to sharing her expertise with you. Finish with practical and insightful tips and tools you can use the next day!

• Identify complications and respond more appropriately
• Confidently and effectively communicate with patients and their families
• Provide safer and more effective care

Get Management Strategies and More for:

• Alzheimer’s Disease & Dementias
• Pain Management
• Geriatric Pharmacology
• Geriatric Emergencies
• Managing Challenging Behaviors
• Caregiver Stress & Burnout
• And Much More

Purchase today and leave feeling prepared and confident in your ability to overcome the most challenging complexities of working with geriatric patients as a Certified Dementia Care Specialist (CDCS)!

1. Identify the signs and symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.
2. List appropriate diagnostic tests to achieve accurate diagnosis.
3. Devise interventions that are effective and promote positive communication between staff, family & the older adult.
4. Apply techniques and identify strategies to avoid adverse drug events and drug disease interactions.
5. Develop individualized monitoring plans for geriatric patients through the evaluation of high risk medications.
6. Identify at least three new guideline recommendations related to geriatric pharmacology.
7. Implement controlled substance/pain management contracts into practice.
8. Recognize symptoms of controlled substance and alcohol misuse and abuse.
9. Describe best practice methods for prescribing in the geriatric population.
10. Review strategies to diminish the occurrence of behavioral problems in individuals with dementia.
11. Discuss behavioral and environmental techniques to diminish challenging behavioral problems.
12. Identify how cognitive impairment in older individuals is affected by environment, caregiver schedules, and responses to the behaviors.
13. Develop strategies to identify abuse and neglect.
14. Distinguish etiologic and pathologic factors associated with neurological, orthopedic, abdominal, cardiovascular & pulmonary emergencies.
15. Discuss the atypical presentation of the elderly and how to effectively manage comorbidities.
16. Discuss how to apply age-sensitive principles for medication dosing and management to clinical scenarios.
17. List key questions useful for identifying and managing polypharmacy in older adults.

DAY ONE

Differentiating Dementias

• Normal vs. Abnormal Aging
• Types of Dementias
• Alzheimer’s Disease
• Parkinson’s Disease Dementia
• Substance-Induced Neurocognitive Disorder
• Pharmacological Management

Geriatric Pharmacology: Tools for the Healthcare Professional

• Drug Utilization Amongst the Elderly
• Billing Codes That You MUST Know
• Clinical Pharmacological Issues in the Elderly

Pain Management in the Elderly

• The Challenges Associated with Controlled Substances
• Pain Control … Is every patient’s RIGHT

DAY TWO

Managing Geriatric Behaviors: Wandering, Aggression, Malnutrition and More

• Wandering
• Physical Aggression
• Inappropriate Sexual Behaviors
• Eating Issues & Nutrition in Elders with Dementia
• Sleepless Nights & Sundowning
• Professional Issues

Geriatric Emergencies

• Physiological Changes with Aging
• Common Underlying Chronic Illness
• Cardiovascular Emergencies
• Pulmonary Emergencies
• Cerebrovascular Emergencies
• Orthopedic Emergencies
• Abdominal Emergencies

Top Ten Medications to Avoid in the Geriatric Patient

• The BEERS List
• Risks Associated with Anticholinergic Drugs
• The TOP TEN
• 5 Things Patients & Physicians Should Question