Dates: April 14-15, 2012
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
Course Type: Live Seminar | ACP Series
Presenter(s): Jennifer M. Bottomley, PT, MS, PhD
Price: $349 Member | $529 Nonmember (subject to change)
Early-bird Discount: Receive 20% off the standard registration fee when you register 30 days prior to the course start date.
CEU: 1.7 CEUs (17.0 contact hours/CCUs)
Description: This seminar focuses on changes specific to the aging process that lead to decreased function and loss of independence in the elderly. An evidence-based strategy is presented for assessing anatomic, physiologic, and functional changes associated with aging and pathologies that result in infirmity, changes in postural control, and balance and falls in the elderly. This course will examine the medically complex elderly providing the course participants with the most advanced and up-to-date information on the evaluation and treatment of the elderly individual with multisystem involvement. Practice in integrating evaluative information in medically complicated patients towards a comprehensive intervention program will follow APTA guidelines of care. Recent research in strength and flexibility training using hands-on and video-guided exercise protocols will be presented. The complications of multi- and poly-pharmacy, poor nutrition and consequences of dehydration will be discussed. The use of complementary therapies in improving function will be offered with substantiating research provided to establish efficacy. Rehabilitation for medically complex older adults will include discussions relevant to all care settings from acute care, sub-acute, nursing home, outpatient, assisted living, home, senior, and community centers, to fitness facilities. Clinical decision making stratagem is presented for therapeutic involvement in the rehabilitation therapies across this spectrum of care. Reimbursement issues will be discussed and current legislative initiatives involving health maintenance and promotion will be covered. Preventive interventions and screening for problems to prevent disability, falls and identify risk factors leading to frailty is provided via practical tools for the implementation and ongoing reassessment of the elderly client. Exercise strategies for preventing falls, improving balance, and enhancing functional independence are reviewed, demonstrated and practiced. Each participant is asked to bring a write-up of a difficult case study for evaluation, discussion, and clinical decision making in small groups. The focus of this course will be an interdisciplinary approach to gaining strength, flexibility, and function in the inactive and medically complex elderly.
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