Doug Dillion, PT, GTC
Kresege Center, Hospital Campus- September 24-25, 2011
8:00 a.m. -6:00 p.m.
(Registration at 7:30 a.m.)
20 Contact Hours:
Course Description
(Course is open to Primary audience PT, PTA, OT, OTA. Secondary audience other rehab professionals.) Rehabilitation for older persons is changing rapidly. Payment changes make it more challenging to deliver quality care to the rehabilitatively and medically complex older patient. New advances in treatment techniques, research on efficacy and outcomes make it imperative for the practicing clinician to gather as much proven clinical information as possible. The purpose of this seminar is to provide participants with the most up-to-date information on the evaluation and treatment of the medically complex geriatric patient. The seminar format is lecture and discussion, as the speaker guides you through the most recent research, evaluation tools, and treatment protocols. Case studies and video demonstration with patients will encourage participants to integrate this information into the development of individualized plans for that can be implemented immediately. The extensive handout, which is over 300 pages with 6,000 current medical references, will provide detailed evaluation forms, outcome measures, suggested protocols, sample home exercises and progressions. The material presented provides a thorough approach to therapeutic strategies and goals, thereby preparing therapists to design and implement highly skilled rehabilitation programs for older persons
Course Objectives
After this training, you will be able to:
- Define the role of the geriatric specialist.
- Provide statistics on the growth of older persons in America.
- Discuss theories of aging.
- Differentiate various medical problems in the older patient.
- Interpret lab values for changes of pathology specific to the elderly.
- Demonstrate treatment techniques and how they can be modified for the elderly.
- Use the tenets of adult learning models to develop programs that will be effective in the rehabilitation of older persons.
- Discuss the pros and cons of utilizing published protocols with elderly patients.
- Prescribe appropriate exercises based on differential diagnoses.
- Integrate information of differential diagnoses for monitoring exercise programs.
- Evaluate the most complicated older persons using standardized functional assessment tools.
- Develop and justify comprehensive plans and treatment programs for complicated older patients.
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