Geriatrics for Primary Care Providers and Hospitalists - Enduring Activity
Geriatrics for Primary Care Providers and Hospitalists - Enduring Activity is organized by Baylor College of Medicine (BCM).
Included Module Topics:
• Identification and Management of Delirium
• Rapid Geriatric Assessment
• Demographics and Physiologic Aging
• Depression in Older Adults
• Management of Dementia Related Behaviors
• Dementia Treatment: Where to Start, Where to Stop
• Age-Friendly Systems of Care: Implementing the 4Ms
• Managing Patient Medication Regimens When Polypharmacy is Present
• Transitions of Care: Ensuring Safe & Neglect Free Transitions
• Keys to Capacity Evaluation Vulnerable Older Adults
Objectives:
At the conclusion of the activity, participants should be able to:
• Identification and Management of Delirium
• Explain the impact of delirium on patients, caregivers and the health system.
• Recall the predisposing risk factors and precipitating contributors for the development of delirium in older adults.
• Rapid Geriatric Assessment
• Recall the benefits of incorporating geriatric assessment elements into primary care visits with older adults.
• Outline the geriatric assessment tools with high-yield results during encounters.
• Utilize the findings of brief geriatrics assessment to modify the care of older adults.
• Demographics and Physiologic Aging
• Analyze how age-related changes can alter presentation of disease.
• Identify the overlaps between aging and diseases.
• Discuss age-related changes in the brain.
• Depression in Older Adults
• Distinguish between Major Depressive Disorder and Minor Depression in older adults.
• List the risk factors for depressive illnesses in older adults.
• Discuss the evidence-based psychotherapeutic interventions for depression in older adults.
• Discuss the evidence-based treatments for older adult treatment refractory depression.
• Management of Dementia Related Behaviors
• Summarize the epidemiology of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD).
• Identify the reversible medical causes of behavioral issues in older adults with dementia.
• Evaluate the formalized management approaches to BPSD including the DICE and STR-VA models.
• Dementia Treatment: Where to Start, Where to Stop
• Explain pharmacologic treatments for dementia, including aducanumab.
• Identify the risks/benefits of initiating pharmacologic dementia treatment with older adults and their families.
• Identify the common indications for discontinuing pharmacologic dementia treatments and possible impacts on older adults with dementia.
• Age-Friendly Systems of Care: Implementing the 4Ms
• Recall the impetus for age-friendly systems of care.
• List the 4Ms which make up age-friendly care (matters most, mentation, mobility, and medication).
• Managing Patient Medication Regimens When Polypharmacy is Present
• Summarize the medication prescribing practices in aging patients in the United States.
• List helpful tools and practices that can help streamline prescribing medication in aging patients.
• Transitions of Care: Ensuring Safe & Neglect Free Transitions
• Interpret the risks to patients at transitions of care.
• Explore factors that contribute to safe transitions of care.
• Identify opportunities for improving each factor that contributes to safe transitions of care
• Analyze how a multidisciplinary approach can reduce older adult neglect after a care transition.
• Keys to Capacity Evaluation Vulnerable Older Adults
• Describe the ethics of the components for determining a vulnerable older adults’ capacity to live safety and independently in the community.
• Identify assessment tools that can be used to screen for older adults’ capacity to live safety and independently in the community.