Palliative Care Approach to Frailty
Palliative Care Approach to Frailty is organized by MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care.
Release Date: March 17, 2020
Expiration Date: September 19, 2022 (for physicians and non-physicians); April 17, 2024 (for nurses); January 31, 2025 (for NYS Social Workers)
Purpose:
The goal of the webinar is to identify patients who are frail and to apply appropriate interventions to manage the frailty syndrome at different phases of their chronic illness.
Objectives:
• Explain frailty pathophysiology
• Discuss clinical tools used to identify frailty in patients
• Incorporate frailty into patient prognostication and develop strategies in the management of the frailty syndrome
• Recognize challenging clinical scenarios in the context of the family meeting