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Saturday, August 22, 2009
7:15 am - Conference Registration, Continental Breakfast
GENERAL SESSION
8:00 am - Ethical Dilemmas in Long Term Care - Lea Brandt, OTD, OTR/L; David Cravens, MD, MSPH, CMD; David Fleming, MD, MA; Marcia Flesner, PhD, RN; Don F. Reynolds, JD;
Audience Objectives:
- Develop skills in recognizing and addressing common ethical dilemmas in the care of long term care residents.
- Recognize futility as a valid concept and the importance of effective palliative care in the long term care setting.
10:00 am - Break & Exhibits
10:30 am - CONCURRENT SESSION 1
1. Anticoagulation in Long Term Care Settings -
Steven C. Zweig, MD;
Audience Objectives:
- We will review indications and approaches to anticoagulation in elderly patients.
- We will discuss system approaches to avoiding injury when using anticoagulation.
2. Post Acute Care: What Are the Other Options? - Greg Worsowicz, MD;
Audience Objectives:
- Describe Medicare's 4 post-acute care settings.
- Discuss the appropriate post-acute setting for a patient based on their medical, functional, social, and financial resources.
3. Update on Hospice and Long Term Care: Collaborative Care and the New COPs - Kim Logan, MA; Jim Pierce, MDiv; Yvonne Schwandt; Paul E. Tatum, MD;
Audience Objectives:
- Describe the basic requirements for collaboration between hospices and long term care facilities under the new hospice Medicare Conditions of Participation.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the key components of the Hospice/LTC Coordinated Task Plan.
11:30 - Move to concurrent session
11:40 - CONCURRENT SESSION 2
4. Antipsychotics and Treatment in the Elderly - James Slaughter, MD;
Audience Objectives:
- Understand the "black box" warning regarding antipsychotic usage with dementia patients
- Appreciate the metabolic syndrome that may ensue with antipsychotic usage in the elderly
- When/if to utilize antipsychotics with the elderly
5. Resident Centered Care in Alzheimer’s Disease – Karen Enyard, MSW;
Audience Objectives:
- Understand the value and role of person centered care and it’s relevance to the needs of the person’s with dementia.
- Recognize how person centered care works in collaboration with the movement towards culture change in the long term care setting.
- Utilize the person centered care approach to improve quality of care in order to promote innovation and a desire to always seek to reach the dementia patient by using their family language.
- Recognize the importance of engaging in changing the paradigm of the long-term care experience for those who are present and future long term care patients.
6. Using Technology to Improve Care for Older Adults - Gregory L. Alexander, PhD, RN; Bonnie Wakefield PhD, RN, FAAN; Doug Wakefield PhD:
Audience Objectives:
- Examine clinical technologies being integrated into the care of elderly people at home.
- Assess current dashboard quality measures used in the evaluation and effectiveness of clinical technologies in primary care.
12:40 pm - Lunch
GENERAL SESSION
1:30 pm - Emerging Infections in the Nursing Home Setting - Eddie R. Hedrick, BS, MT(ASCP), CIC;
Audience Objectives:
- Describe the possible impact of the Novel H1N1 influenza virus on the elderly population.
- List 3 measures for prevention of UTIs from the new CDC UTI guidelines.
- Discuss the current status of C. difficle in the U.S.
- Explain the current problem regardiing unsafe syringe and medication safety in non-hospital care settings.
2:30 - Move to concurrent session
2:40 pm - CONCURRENT SESSION 3
7. MDS 3.0 - Addressing Changes in the Minimum Data Set - Carol Siem MSN, RN, BC, GNP;
Audience Objectives:
- Review the proposed changes for MDS 3.0.
- Discuss ways to begin the change process from 2.0 to 3.0
8. Peer Mentorship for Persons Aging with a Disability - David Oliver, PhD; Homer Page, PhD;
Audience Objectives:
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To explore the use of peers in the promotion of independence among persons who are aging with a new disability.
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To illustrate how a peer mentor can assist a newly disabled person to positively adjust to living with a disability.
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To explore with attendees ways to implement a mentoring program in a variety of settings.
9. Pain Management in the Elderly - Paul E. Tatum, MD;
Audience Objectives:
- Examine the impact of physiologic changes of aging on prescribing for pain.
- Review the new guidelines for management of pain in the elderly from the American Geriatric Society.
3:40 - Break
3:50 - CONCURRENT SESSION 4
10. Using Quality Indicators to Improve Care - De Minner, BSN, RN;
Audience Objective:
- Illustrate the value of teaching & using Federal QI/QMs as a shared languagefor nursing home staff.
- Give examples of how coupling QI/QMs and psychosocial needs have been used to improve Person Centered/Directed Care of nursing home residents.
11. Managing Grief and Loss in the Nursing Home - Debra Parker Oliver, PhD, MSW; Denise Swenson;
Audience Objectives:
- Identify the impact of grief in the workplace.
- Identify the signs and symptoms of grief in the workplace.
- Recommendations for effective self-care.
12. Hospital-Based Units in Caring for the Elderly - Kyle Moylan, MD;
Audience Objectives:
- Describe common hazards of hospitalization for older adults
- Describe the ACE model of care.
- Describe the published outcomes of ACE programs in the literature.
- Describe how working to address the patient’s functional status can improve the focus of care.
- Describe how information technology can identify high risk older adults and improve their care.
4:50 Adjourn
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