Management strategies and more for: Alzheimer's Disease & Dementias, Pain Management, Geriatric Pharmacology, Geriatric Emergencies, Managing Challenging Behaviors, Caregiver Stress & Burnout, And Much More!
Presented by Steven Atkinson, PA-C, MS
Course Objectives:
- Appraise the signs and symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.
- Determine appropriate diagnostic tests to achieve accurate diagnosis.
- Devise interventions that are effective and promote positive communication between staff, family & the older adult.
- Apply techniques and identify strategies to avoid adverse drug events and drug disease interactions.
- Develop individualized monitoring plans for geriatric patients through the evaluation of high risk medications.
- Appraise at least three new guideline recommendations related to geriatric pharmacology.
- Implement controlled substance/pain management contracts into practice.
- Prepare to manage symptoms of controlled substance and alcohol misuse and abuse in geriatric patients.
- Develop best practice methods for prescribing in the geriatric population.
- Determine strategies to diminish the occurrence of behavioral problems in individuals with dementia.
- Apply behavioral and environmental techniques to diminish challenging behavioral problems.
- Analyze how cognitive impairment in older individuals is affected by environment, caregiver schedules, and responses to the behaviors.
- Develop strategies to identify abuse and neglect.
- Distinguish etiologic and pathologic factors associated with neurological, orthopedic, abdominal, cardiovascular & pulmonary emergencies.
- Differentiate between typical aging and complex management of co-morbidities in the elderly.
- Develop age-sensitive principles for medication dosing and management to clinical scenarios.
- Propose key questions useful for identifying and managing polypharmacy in older adults