Older Adult: Live (Jan 30 - 31, 2027) - Billings

Older Adult: Live is organized by Institute of Clinical Excellence (ICE) and will be held from Jan 30 - 31, 2027 at Alpenglow Physical Therapy, Billings, Montana, United States of America.

Course Overview:
Designed for rehabilitation and fitness professionals who want to elevate their skill set in the management of older adults. The size of this population is growing rapidly, unfortunately the desire to manage them with cutting edge evidence guided treatment has lagged well behind. Too often we see our older adults getting under treated, both with exercise and manual therapy, apparently as a consequence of both fear and ignorance.

Take a deep dive into exploring myths and misconceptions of aging while laying out a clear current best evidence pathway to enable our older adults to not only survive but to thrive. A special emphasis is placed on progressive functional fitness in this population to stave off functional decline.

Objectives:

• Describe physiological processes that happen during healthy aging as well as with the development of clinical geriatric syndromes such as frailty and sarcopenia.
• Develop a thorough examination process with functional measures that are tailored for your patients.
• Prescribe, modify and scale functional, multi-joint exercises for older persons who are healthy community-dwelling older adults or complex clients with multi-morbidities.
• Design appropriately-dosed exercise programs including progressions and regressions to obtain the intended outcome for your client who is older whether you’re in the home health setting or working with the Masters athlete.
• Design evidence-based fall prevention programs to obtain the intended outcome for your clients.
• Design and execute effective falls landing training with clients across the continuum of care.
• Develop strategies to manage, minimize, or reduce fear in the older adult population.