CAPC Course: Reducing Risks for Older Adults
The Center to Advance Palliative Care has released a new clinical training course, "Reducing Risks for Older Adults."
The training course provides context and best practices for systematically identifying older adults who are at risk for poor outcomes, including falls, delirium, and caregiving challenges when they are admitted to the hospital or surgery center. Learners will gain familiarity with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Age-Friendly Health Systems framework, and will use the program’s 4Ms (What Matters, Medication, Mentation, Mobility) to practice harm reduction and age-friendly care.
Special emphasis is placed on steps to assess for and reduce risks of delirium, and ways to prevent patient harms by addressing polypharmacy and reducing anticholinergic drug burden for the older adult.
To learn more and to register, click here.
To go to CAPC's COVID-19 Response Resources Hub, click here.
To learn more about the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative, click here.
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