Friday, January 31, 2020, 7:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Kirkwood Conference Center, Cedar Rapids, IA

Geriatric Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Physician Assistant

Designed for primary care physicians, nurses, social workers, and other healthcare professionals, this conference instructs participants in the diagnosis, treatment, and management of conditions common in older adults. This year's program focuses on care of the older adult in the nursing facility. 

1. Discuss assessment and management of the nursing home residents with acute behavioral disturbances
2. List signs and symptoms of delirium
3. Explain the work-up to differentiate between depression and dementia in the nursing facility population
4. Discuss the complexities of assessing and intervening in suspected financial exploitation of a dependent adult.
5. Summarize the diagnostic and treatment challenges pertaining to urinalry incontinence and UTIs
6. Review the components of an effective provider to provider phone conversation regarding status changes in facility patients
7. Explore considerations for and the dynamics of stopping medications of uncertain value from the perspectives of patients, families and professional care providers
8. Describe techniques and goals of shared decision making as applied to end of life health care discussions
9. Identify ways to promote infection control in the nursing facility and barriers to implementation
10. Examine quality indicators, quality improvement plans and systems of reporting in long term care.
11. Analyze strategies to improve hand-offs between acute and long term care facilities

All but $25 of the fee is refundable if inability to attend is made known on or before January 20, 2020. 

The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

 

Friday, January 31, 2020