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August 21-22, 2009
- Purpose:
To provide a forum for updating health professions caring for the elderly in the areas of clinical management, interdisciplinary care, and system change.
- Objectives:
Describe evidence-based approaches to addressing complex syndromes relating to falls, fractures, and frailty, strategies for anticoagulation, approaches to treating dementia, and pain management.
Discuss the interdisciplinary aspects of caring for the elderly in hospitals, approaching ethical and legal issues in frails elders, managing grief and loss in the nursing home, and providing end of life care in assisted living facilities.
Explore system changing approaches to care involving Medicare Part D, the MDS 3.0, innovations regarding transitions to hospital and nursing home, managing emerging infections, and using information technology in long term care settings.
- Program:
- Accreditation
- Registration
- Location and Lodging
- Sponsored by:
- University of Missouri School of Medicine
- Donald W. Reynolds Foundation Programs in Geriatrics at the University of Missouri School of Medicine
- MU Interdisciplinary Center on Aging
- University of Missouri Sinclair School of Nursing
- University of Missouri School of Health Professions
- University of Missouri School of Social Work
- Missouri Association of Long-Term Care Physicians
- Mid-Missouri Area Health Education Center
- The Center for Health Policy
- University of Missouri Extension
- Planning Committee
- Support
In support of this conference, we gratefully acknowledge
an education grant from
Merck & Co., Inc.
In Support of this conference,
we gratefully acknowledge the following exhibitors:
- BioTech - Med Lab
- Cryo Probe
- Hospice Compassas
- Merck & Co., Inc.
- Missouri Cancer Registry
- Missouri SMP
- Missouri Telehealth Network
- Novartis
- Omnicare Pharmacies of Missouri
- Preferred Hospice of Missouri (Central)
- QIPMO, (MU Sinclair School of Nursing)
- Sucampo, Inc.
- University of Missouri - Health Management and Informatics
- Walgreen-Option Care
Questions? Contact Kara Carr or call (573) 882-5661.
A copy of the brochure in pdf format is available for downloading and printing by clicking on image above.
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