OVERVIEW

Geriatrics for Primary Care Providers & Hospitalists 2021 is organized by Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and will be held on Oct 30, 2021.

Target Audience:
Primary Care Providers, Internists, Family Medicine Practitioners, Hospitalists, General Medicine, Nurse Practitioners, and Physician Assistants.

Need Statement:
This 4-hour course is designed to educate primary care providers and hospitalists with a diverse patient population to manage common geriatric presentations effectively. The course will focus on geriatric clinical issues commonly encountered in both inpatient and outpatient care settings. This will be presented didactically by geriatric faculty nationally recognized for their expertise in chronic disease management, and will involve best practice strategies and education through case studies and lectures. A 1 hour CME for ethics is included. Each session will include time for questions and answers and an audience response system will allow immediate feedback regarding CME test questions. A full syllabus of educational materials will be provided.

Why Should I Attend:
The need for care for older adults has never been bigger, and it is only growing. The combination of the aging of the Baby Boom population and an increase in life expectancy will mean that older adults make up a much larger percentage of the U.S. population than ever before. It is estimated that we will need 20,000 board certified geriatricians to take care of 14 million older Americans. However there are currently less than 8,000 board certified Geriatricians to serve this need. The Institute of Medicine’s landmark report, Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce, states “unless action is taken immediately, the health care workforce will lack the capacity to meet the needs of older patients in the future.” Primary Care continues to be the backbone of medical care for older Americans, and it is important to understand geriatric principles in order to provide the best care for our older adults. The purpose of this interactive course is for non-Geriatricians to learn to effectively identify, evaluate, and treat conditions unique to the elderly.

Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of the conference, participants should be able to:
• Apply current evidence-based concepts in geriatric medicine to daily practice caring for elders
• Identify psychosocial problems and ethical issues in decision-making
• Diagnose and manage the major geriatric syndromes
• Identify basic principles of geriatric medicine, transition of care and Optimizing Prescribing in Older Adults.

Topics:
• Keys to Capacity Evaluation
• Age-Friendly Health Systems/4Ms
• Rapid Geriatric Assessment
• Optimizing Prescribing in Older Adults
• Depression in Older Adults
• Management of Dementia Related Behaviors

Primary Care:
• Dementia Treatment - Where to Start, Where to Stop
• Clinical Impact of Physiological Changes of Aging

Hospitalists:
• Delirium Prevention and Management
• Transition of Care