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Curriculum
Guide
The
Rhode Island Geriatric Education Center is
pleased to offer the second edition
of
Interdisciplinary Practice in Geriatrics:
A Curriculum Guide
©
2001.
The
curriculum guide is divided into five core
modules/workshops and two advanced
practice case study modules/seminars. Each
module is interdisciplinary and
incorporates the perspectives of the
original four RIGEC disciplines of
medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and social
work. Core workshops are built around
three- to four-hour long presentations,
often with the discussion of one case to
illustrate the concepts and principles
presented. Advanced practice seminars are
built around Problem-Based Learning (PBL)
methods, relying on more extended case
discussions, with short lectures to
summarize the most recent research and
issues presented in the cases.
The
guide is meant to serve as an outline to
be used by individuals who provide or have
an interest in providing continuing
professional education and in-service
training in geriatrics and
interdisciplinary practice. The primary
target disciplines for this material are
medicine nursing, social work, pharmacy,
and nursing home administration. However,
the content is relevant for any health
care or human service professional who
works with older adults.
The
guide contains the following materials in
a 3-ring binder format: hardcopies of
PowerPoint ™ slides for each module,
case study materials and facilitator's
notes for Advanced Practice Seminars I and
II, and reference lists.
Module
I: Age-Related Changes and
Geriatric Assessment
Topics include: physical and
psychosocial age-related changes and
geriatric assessment
Module II: Risk Management in
Geriatrics: Understanding Legal and
Ethical Issues
Topics include: establishing a
framework for thinking about values in
caring for older adults; introduction
to guardianships; an overview of
advanced directives; values in
professional codes of ethics
Module III: Diagnosis, Prognosis
and Geriatric Clinical Care
Topics include: chronic illness -
levels of prevention, trajectories,
& comorbidity; the periodic health
exam for older adults; preventive care
strategies; and palliative care
Module IV: Geriatric Syndromes
and Medication
Topics include: delirium; dementia;
behavioral management strategies;
pharmacotherapy of patients with
cognitive disease; alternative
treatment of dementia
Module V: Core Clinical
Approaches in Geriatrics
Topics include: interdisciplinary
teamwork in geriatrics; total quality
management (tqm)/continuous quality
improvement (cqi); spirituality and
healing
Module VI: Advanced Practice
Seminar I
Seminar topics and case studies address
family caregiver issues; patients with
mutiple medical and psychiatric
conditions; controversies in the use of
antipsychotics; elder abuse; competency
and decision-making capacity
Module VII: Advanced Practice
Seminar II
Seminar topics and case studies address
two models or paradigms of health care;
health behavior change; nutrition
issues in aging; alcohol abuse in the
elderly; grief and loss; and geriatric
pharmacotherapy
This
is the second edition, series b & c,
of the curriculum guide. Each module
within the guide was last reviewed and
updated prior to its use in a workshop or
seminar on the following dates: Module I:
May 9, 2000; Module II: April 28, 2000;
Module III: September 18, 2000; Module IV:
October 23, 2000 (all new content); Module
V: September 27, 1999; Module VI: October
25, 1999; and Module VII: March 13,
2000.
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