This conference is designed to provide health care professionals with new perspectives as they care for older adults. Content will focus on caregiver burnout and prevention strategies, community groups, adult daycare, respite care, dietetic needs, meal supplementation, falls with the aging population, discussion surrounding the process for achieving Level 1 Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation, durable medical equipment and assistive devices, a leadership panel on living facilities, as well as affordable housing.
Agenda
7:15 am Registration, Breakfast, and Exhibitors
7:50 am Welcome and Announcements
8:00 am Keeping Caregivers Connected George Clement, MD
9:00 am Nutrition Considerations in the Aging Population Parul Kharod, MS, RD, LDN
10:00 am Break and Exhibitors
10:15 am Save your Mama From the Trauma: Frailty, Falls and Fractures in the Geriatric Population Jiselle Bock, MD, MPH
11:15 am How to Build a Level I Geriatric ED Program Eric LeFebvre, MD, FACEP & Amy Short, MSN, RN, NEA-BC
12:15 pm Lunch and Exhibitors
1:15 pm DME and Assistive Devices for the Aging Population Sarah Brown, PT, DPT & Dana Thomson, PT, DPT, CSRS
2:15 pm Living Facility Leadership Panel
Moderator: Eric LeFebvre, MD, FACEP
Panelists: Debra Ruff, BA and Carmen Argiros, BS, BA, MT-BC
3:15 pm Break
3:30 pm Developing Thriving, Affordable Senior Communities Using Low Income Housing Tax Credits LaTonya McKoy & Kayla Rosenberg Strampe
4:15 pm Wrap up & Closing Comments
4:20pm Adjourn