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Learning Objectives
Discuss Polypharmacy in Geriatric Patients
Develop strategies to reconcile medication therapies and minimize adverse drug events in geriatric patients
Identify and list resources to optimize patient safety and medication use in geriatric patients
Enhance communication and collaboration between healthcare professionals and families of hospitalized persons with dementia.
Identify education and support to families to enhance their understanding of dementia and the hospitalization process
Develop and implement tailored interventions to address the unique needs and preferences of families of hospitalized persons with dementia
Describe the evidence that supports CAPABLE and the urgent need to adopt models of care that fully integrate the social determinants of health along with the clinical status of the older adult.
Describe the program components and team Describe how CAPABLE addresses equity and promotes self-efficacy
Describe the unique neuropathology of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and the clues this provides to disease pathogenesis
Illustrate how this pathology can be recapitulated in a laboratory environment, and what this tells us about the origins of disease