Caring for the Older Adult I is a series of six modules designed to target health professionals in the nursing home, hospital, clinic, and home health care environments.  This program was produced and distributed by the University of Florida Geriatric Education Center (GEC) in cooperation with the North Florida Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) and the Gainesville VA Medical Center Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC), Fall 2001 and with the assistance of the College of Medicine's Office of Medical Informatics.

The program is easier and more reliable to use, PLUS instantly issues a continuing education credit certificate which can be printed out by the participant for his/her records.

Topics for this program are:

Module 1 - GI: The Long and Short of It
 Module 2 - Getting Around: Assistive Technology
Module 3 - Drugs and the Elderly
 Module 4 - The Neurology Connection
Module 5 - Losing It: Physical Deficits of Aging
Module 6 - Moderated Roundtable -- Panel discussion with six older adults about their areas of satisfaction, dissatisfaction, expectations and perceptions of health care and health care professionals.

 

Go to Caring for the Older Adult I

 

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