University of North Dakota GWEP Symposium: Improving Healthcare for American Indian Elders
University of North Dakota Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP) is hosting a half-day virtual symposium, "Improving Healthcare for American Indian Elders."
Age-friendly healthcare involves using evidence-based practice and awareness of older adult's health care based on the framework of Geriatric 4Ms: What Matters, Mentation, Medication, and Mobility. This half day symposium will host regional experts who will discuss incorporation of each of the 4Ms in patient care specific for American Indian populations.
Speakers include:
- Tami Jollie-Trottier, PhD, Indigenized Behavioral Healing
- Jordan P. Lewis, PhD, MSW, Associate Director, Memory Keepers Medical Discovery Team - Health Equity, Professor, Department of Family Medicine & Biobehavioral Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth campus
- Monica Mayer, MD, Council Women and Physician, Quentin N. Burdick Memorial Hospital
- Blythe S. Winchester, MD, MPH, CMD, AGSF, Director of Geriatrics Services, Cherokee Indian Hospital, Certified Medical Director, Tsali Care Center, Chief Clinical Consultant, Geriatrics and Palliative Care, Indian Health Service
This symposium provides up to four educational credits.
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