SHC Geropalliative Care Online Series: Session 2
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Medicine, Nursing, Healthcare Management
Oncology, Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Family Medicine, Geriatrics, Family Medicine
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SHC Geropalliative Care Online Series: Session 2 is organized by Sharp HealthCare.
Release Date: February 22, 2021
Expiry Date: February 21, 2024
Description:
Review terms, characteristics, and systems related to geropalliative care. Discuss risk factors, outcomes, and tools related to delirium and its prevention.
Objectives :
Following this activity, participants should be able to:
- Define geriatric frailty syndrome.
- List the five characteristics of the Freid-Hoplins definition of frailty.
- Review important outcome variables when a patient has frailty.
- Describe the pathophysiology of the process of frailty at a chemical and cellular level.
- List four prognostic markers that can be used with frail patients to determine outcomes.