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Seminars offered per year: 4
Seminar Leaders: Lumie Kawasaki, MD, MBA
Offered:
- July 20th, 2005 at 8:30am
- August 17th, 2005 at 8:30am
- September 21st, 2005 at 8:30am
- December 21st, 2005 at 8:30am
Sign up for this seminar.
Goals and Objectives
- Provide background on different theories of normal aging, the demography
of aging, and the concept of the frail elder.
- Illustrate the principles, benefits, and pitfalls of the interdisciplinary
approach and management of older adults.
- Build curiosity, interest, and enthusiasm in the field of geriatrics
Students
Minimum Number: 8
Maximum Number: 12
Agenda
- Aging game with short introduction - 60 minutes
Students will participate in this progressive simulation, which provides personal insight
and experience to the medical and psychosocial issues of the aging adult.
- Aging Quiz: What does aging mean? - 45 minutes
Students will participate in a quick question-answer format presenting concepts of
normal aging vs pathological changes. General articles on the aging phenomenon and
process will be provided prior to the session.
- Collaboration, the key to success in older adult care - 45 minutes
Interdisciplinary team management is a long-standing model of care with close ties to geriatric
principles. Older adults, particularly frail older adults, commonly present a picture of medical
and psychosocial complexity with multiple levels of clinical issues from acute and sub-acute care
to chronic disease management in institutional and non-institutional settings. Believing that no
individual discipline could address and adequately serve these needs, the interdisciplinary approach
optimally provides an infrastructure for comprehensive assessment, collaboration, and
patient-centered care. Necessary skills go beyond clinical skills of assessment and management,
requiring, instead, skills in group dynamics, conflict resolution, interpersonal communication,
and group decision-making. Using a mixture of role-playing and cases, principles of effective
interdisciplinary team management will be presented.
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