Topics in Family Medicine and Geriatrics

Topics in Family Medicine and Geriatrics is organized by Continuing Education, Inc and will be held from Sep 16 - 23, 2018 at Royal Caribbean's Allure of the Seas, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States of America.

The target audience for this medical event is Physicians, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.

Topics:

Osteoporosis
• Evaluate screening recommendations and apply them to everyday practice
• Utilize therapies that include bisphosphonates, PTH and inhibitors of the RANK/RANKL/OPG system
• Recommend appropriate vitamin D therapy
• Better advise patients on calcium supplementation

MCI and Alzheimer's Disease
• Define Mild Cognitive Impairment in both amnestic and non-amnestic disease states
• Understand the potential implications of early diagnosis of dementia for patient care outcomes
• Describe the clinical manifestations of Alzheimer's disease
• Evaluate patients with symptoms of cognitive and functional loss
• Apply appropriate drug and non-drug interventions for patients with dementia
• Counsel families and caregivers at all stages of disease

To Sleep: Perchance to Dream
• Describe the age-related changes in sleep
• Evaluate the psychiatric, medical, and neurological causes of sleep problems
• Implement office-based and objective methods for evaluating sleep-disordered breathing
• Intervene with appropriate treatments for complaints of insomnia including CBTI as first-line guideline-directed care

Management of Constipation
• Understand the common barriers that hinder the optimal management of chronic constipation in health care settings
• Define primary as well as secondary causes of hypertension in the older adult
• Provide a rational strategy to manage constipation based on current best evidence of the drug classes currently available

Where Pain Management Meets Addiction Medicine
• Understand the pathogenesis of pain
• Apply recent guidelines in pain management
• Choose appropriate drug therapy and multimodal interventions for the relief of pain
• Enroll in your state's Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP)
• Balance the management of patients who present with both pain and opioid addiction

Pulmonary Disease in the Elderly
• Evaluate current trends in pulmonary disease in the elderly
• Review current immunization guidelines and supportive therapy
• Include new therapies like LAMA/LABA combination inhalers and roflumilast in the management of COPD
• Implement the appropriate use of nebulizers, MDIs, and oxygen
• Apply guideline-directed care to patients with COPD

Nutritional Supplements: When East meets West
• Understand that adequate nutrition is a prerequisite for the maintenance of good health and optimum efficiency
• Find the online resources that provide the best evidence in support of dietary and nutritional supplements
• Identify targeted supplements for heart disease, vision, depression/mood, and urologic disorders
• Council patients on the risks of certain therapies in the presence of another disease.

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.