SHC Geropalliative Care Online Series: Session 6
SHC Geropalliative Care Online Series: Session 6 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:
• Discuss upstream prognostication (Warning) and its impact on patient and family decision-making.
• Identify three risk factors with high rates of delirium.
• Review a simple tool to measure risk for functional decline.
• Explain why bedrest can be so harmful to the advanced elderly.
• Define five metrics suggested by the AHA and ACC for the annual management of heart patients.
• Define Hospital Associated Disability (HAD).