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Wednesday, April 3, 2013 Session Schedule
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Keynote Speaker: Eric Tangalos, MD
Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
The Environment of Care for Alzheimer's Disease
Noon-1:00 p.m.
Keynote Speaker: Taren Sterry, MS, CT
Visiting Nurse Service of New York
Manager, Volunteer Program Services, New York
180daysplay.com
3:00-4:30 p.m.
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Managing and Resolving Dizziness: It does Not Have to be Tolerated!
This course will offer a clear understanding of dizziness in the elderly. Participants will be exposed to the recent evidence in and the practical application of dizziness management. Finally, attendance in this course will provide an opportunity to understand and identify the differences between dizziness, vertigo and imbalance.
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Mike Studer, PT, MHS, NCS, CEEAA
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The Benefit of Preventative Medicine through the Years: "The Exercise Rx"
This session will discuss the importance of the ‘exercise prescription’ to the health of older adults and how to maintain independence late in life. |
Robyn Dreibelbis, DO
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When Family Caregivers Give Too Much
A challenge to family caregivers is taking care of themselves while providing care to another. The speakers will address factors that place family caregivers at higher risk for burnout, and strategies that mediate caregiver stress and burnout. Presenter will highlight the role of health care professionals in caregiver self-care, professional messages that can make a positive difference, resources that support family caregivers, and research findings about respite and other family caregiver-based programs.
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Vicki Schmall, PhD
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Taking Advantage of Cognitive Abilities that are Retained with Dementia
While dementia is associated with significant changes in cognitive abilities, there are some abilities that are retained. We commonly focus on the losses and what individuals living with dementias can no longer do. This session will identify what changes and what does not, in terms of memory. The common trajectories of memory and other cognitive changes will be discussed with descriptions of what to expect and why. Using the knowledge of these cognitive and memory changes, techniques will be offered for preventing and responding to emotional outbursts and behavioral problems. Pragmatic behavioral management techniques will be presented.
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Rob Winningham, PhD
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Coordinated Care Organizations - Where We Are and Where We Are Going
This presentation will provide participants a broad overview of Coordinated Care Organizations (CCOs) now and in the future. |
Rhonda Busek, MBA
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Video Series
8:15-9:15 a.m. - Grandmother to Grandmother: New York to Tanzania
9:20-9:45 a.m. - Life's Waltz
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10:00-11:30 a.m.
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Social Security and Its Hidden Benefits
This course is designed to provide attendees with a basic understanding of Social Security Programs and online planning and application tools.
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Alan Edwards, Public Affairs Specialist
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Nutrition and Healthy Brain Aging: The Good, Bad and Ugly
This presentation will discuss the public health challenges regarding Alzheimer’s disease in America. The conceptual and methodological challenges in Alzheimer prevention will be discussed. The diet and nutrition implicated in healthy brain aging and mechanisms involved will be discussed.
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Gene Bowman, ND, MPH
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What if Maslow was wrong? Safety vs. Autonomy in Older Adults
This presentation will explore the complex issues involved in trying to honor the personal preferences of older adults within the context of a health care environment obsessed with "safety".
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Theresa A. Harvath, PhD, RN, CNS, FAAN
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Sex, Drugs and Rockin’ Chairs
Palliative Assessment of the Taboo: Are we doing enough?
This session will attend to provider and institutional barriers in addressing sexuality in patients with cancer, ALS and heart failure. Literature review of patient/ partner perspective on this topic in the heterosexual and Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender populations will be addressed. In addition, the learner will leave with tools to improve communication skills and personal comfort to ask about sexual/intimacy concerns.
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Tanya Stewart, MD, FAAHPM
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Maintenance of Skeletal Health During Aging
Osteoporosis is a pathological condition characterized by skeletal fragility and increased fracture risk. Osteoporotic fractures result in increased mortality and reduced quality of life in the aged. This session will focus on life style and pharmacological approaches to maintain skeletal health during aging. The session will feature three speakers: Dr. Urszula Iwaniec will discuss nutrition (e.g., calcium, vitamin D, alcohol, caloric deficit), Dr. Katherine Gunter will discuss physical activity, and Dr. Russell Turner will discuss pluses and minuses of “drugs” versus “natural” products in maintaining bone mass. | Urszula Iwaniec, PhD
Katherine Gunter, PhD
Russell Turner, PhD |
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Video Series
10:00-10:25 a.m. - More Than Words: A New Culture of Care and Communication with Persons Who Have Dementia
10:30-10:50 a.m. - The Rabins Response to the Challenging Behaviors of Alzheimer’s Disease
10:55-11:30 a.m. - Alzheimer’s and African Americans: Echoes from the Past
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| 12:00-1:00 -- Keynote Speaker: Eric Tangalos, MD, Mayo Clinic
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The Environment of Care for Alzheimer’s Disease
This presentation will provide the most up-to-date information on Alzheimer’s disease including current research and diagnostic testing. The cognitive, functional and behavioral disturbances will be discussed with advice on what patients, families and caregivers can do at each stage of disease. Special emphasis will be placed on limiting transitions and maximizing use of retained abilities.
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Life Story: Why is recording a life story important, and to whom is it important?
This session will look at the type of techniques to stimulate content for a life story and the research supporting the positive effects on the older adults who record their life stories.
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David Haber, PhD
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Women to Women: Planning for Long-term Care
Women are living longer, but are they necessarily live smarter? Join AARP Oregon to learn what we have learned from Decide. Create. Share., a national initiative designed to help women, especially boomer women, plan a healthy and secure future. Learn about the key issues facing women as they age and the key steps women can take to begin their long-term care plan.
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Bandana Shrestha, MS
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The New Frontier: Infection Prevention in Long Term Care
This session will discuss the unique challenges of infection control in long term care settings and the epidemiology of multi-drug resistant organisms (MDROs). The national and statewide efforts to look at MDROs in long-term care will also be discussed
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Chris Pfeiffer, MD
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Palliative Care Concepts & Practice:
Improving Skills in Goals of Care Discussion
This session will address basic concepts in palliative care and provide the listener with tools to improve his/her communication with the frail elderly and their family members.
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Tanya Stewart, MD, FAAHPM
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Lessons, Challenges, Therapies and Strategies for Treating the Aging Heart
Dr. Gross will explore the physiology of the aging heart and its predisposition to a myriad of cardiovascular diseases and their life disruptive, and at times, life threatening consequences. He will review the incredible array of pharmacologic, catheter based strategies, surgical approaches and amazing devices which have evolved over the last 3-4 decades to deal with these challenges... all of which have to be melded with the goals of relieving symptoms and improving quality of life for our seniors.
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Brian Walter Gross, MD, FACC, FAHA
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Video Series
1:15-2:45 p.m. - The Way We Get By
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3:00-4:30 -- Keynote Speaker: Taren Sterry, Visiting Nurse Service of New York
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180daysplay.com
180 Days is the true story of Taren Sterry's first six months working in hospice. While attending the University of California at Santa Cruz she embarks on a six month ethnographic field study to work with terminally ill patients and their families. Taren eagerly anticipates having deep, spiritual encounters with her patients, but to do that she must first learn how to survive in a foreign land, face the past, and savor the taste of humble pie.
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