Functional Aging Mastery Course: Evidence-Based Therapies for Older Adults – Carole Lewis and Others

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Have you ever walked away from your geriatric clients feeling like you didn’t get enough information to be as effective as you could be in their treatment? Have you ever noticed that your client is improving but the measures you’re using are not showing the progress they’re making?

With a variety of diagnoses from deconditioning to vestibular deficits, we’ll show you how to put the ‘FUN’ in functional aging as you develop your older clients’ rehab strategy to ensure you’ll keep their interest while getting the answers you need in their assessment, strength testing and goals to enhance their overall outcomes. Join international geriatric expert, Carole Lewis, PT, DPT, GCS, GTC, MPA, MSG, PhD, FSOAE, FAPTA, along with her colleagues Danielle Keyser MS, LOTR, GTC and Richard W. Bohannon EdD, DPT, NCS, FAHA, FAPTA, as they walk you through this mastery course filled with evidence-based practice, standardized tests, clinical reasoning and documentation.

Through clinical demonstrations and case studies, you will discover how to:

Assess psychosocial, physical, and endurance deficits to inform goal setting and treatment ideas

• Designate appropriate manual muscle test grades based on observation and handling
• Incorporate inexpensive and incredibly useful tools for adapting function
• Recognize mechanical variables to control reliable measures of muscles strength
• Apply the principle of “therapeutic use of self” in order to motivate geriatric clients
• Demonstrate measurement of grip strength as recommended by the American Society of Hand Therapists
• And so much more!

You’ll also explore the different roles OTs and PTs play in your client’s rehabilitation to help encourage a multi-disciplinary approach that will maximize service, without duplicating efforts or jeopardizing reimbursement…

Plus, you’ll walk away with a BONUS documentation training video to become a more efficient and effective documenter — without taking time away from client care. Help your clients get back their independence when you improve their everyday function with the results-based interventions you’ll gain from this online course!

Gain Concrete Approaches to Get Your Aging Clients Back to Their Everyday Activity!

Putting the ‘Fun’ in Functional – Demonstrations of Evidence Based Therapy

Award-winning therapists, Dr. Carole Lewis and Danielle Keyser MS, LOTR, GTC, will demonstrate evidence-based practices, standardized tests, clinical reasoning, goal setting and documentation with the majority of this session devoted to clinical demonstrations.

We’ll review some of the most important publications regarding function and older persons. Then you’ll get to see first-hand evaluations and treatments of clients in three case studies that vary in diagnoses from deconditioning to vestibular deficits. Danielle Keyser and Dr. Carole Lewis will also discuss the different roles OT and PT play in client rehabilitation including rehab equipment suggestions for inexpensive and incredibly useful tools for adapting function that are ingenious!

You will walk away with:

• Evidence-based principles to evaluations and treatment of older clients with functional deficits
• Psychosocial, physical, and endurance deficits assessments
• How to make disciplines work together to maximize service delivery, without duplicating services and jeopardizing reimbursement
• A variety of standardized tools that will assist in identification of deficit areas, goal setting, and treatment ideas
• Principles of “therapeutic use of self” in order to motivate geriatric clients
• Tips for providing therapy on a budget, using creative thinking to provide cost effective equipment for therapists and clients

Testing Muscle Strength: Practical Considerations for Clinicians Working with Older Adults

Using first-hand field tests and an actual client case study, Richard W. Bohannon EdD, DPT, NCS, FAHA, FAPTA, the world’s leading expert in strength testing, will demonstrate why, how, and when to use a variety of clinically proven strength testing methods.

The ability to use our muscles is essential for everyday function but as we age, the maximum force and strength we depend on, often decreases over time. Clinicians, therefore, need to be able to quantify the muscle strength of older adults. Discover the use of muscle strength testing in your overall management of an older adult clients.

You’ll begin to clarify what we can actually measure when you learn to:

• Explain why the measurement of muscle strength is important in the physical therapy management
• Identify mechanical variables that must be controlled if reliable measures of muscles strength are to be obtained
• Using the grading schemes recommended by Bohannon, assign appropriate manual muscle test grades based on observation and handling
• Demonstrate measurement of grip strength as recommended by the American Society of Hand Therapists
• Perform skilled application of hand held dynamometry for measuring limb muscle forces
• Interpret dynamometer and field test measurements for your clients

The Next Steps in Advancing Your Practice

Watch your email for your order confirmation, and get instant access to all course materials, including the bonus materials — all designed to help you effectively integrate functional aging interventions into your practice. Click here for course objectives and outline.

Review the course materials at your own pace and at your convenience! You’ll have unlimited access to all course videos and materials online forever. Plus, use the CE21 Mobile™ app to access the course content on-the-go, wherever and whenever you want on your mobile devices.

Instantly collaborate with other professionals on the course materials through interactive message boards. You’ll be part of a community of hundreds of practitioners all focused on integrating functional aging approaches into their clinical practice, providing valuable opportunities to share insight and experiences and to build your professional network.

Complete your online CE tests and earn up to 13.5 CE Hours! Click here for total course CE Credit and credit details specific to your profession.