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Aging & Mental Health with Steven Rubin, MD


Speaker:
Steven E. Rubin, MD
Duration:
5 Hours 34 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Apr 27, 2012
Product Code:
PPC050570
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Description

  • Top Ten Causes of Dementia & Prevention
  • Alzheimer's: Hype and Hope
  • Suicide, Euthanasia, and Ambivalence
  • Stress Management
  • Pills That Help, Pills That Hinder
  • Maintaining Lifetime Mental Health

 

This seminar is based on real, every day issues that confront those of us who work with the growing population of seniors, many who are experiencing medical and mental health declines. Join Steven Rubin, M.D., to enhance your skills in helping your aging clients cope with the inability to thrive as well as their emotional and behavioral problems.

 

The majority of health care providers treating the aging and elderly are non-physicians. Mental health professional as well as allied health providers need practical and applicable information to manage the emotional, behavior and cognitive problems specific to the aging population in a variety of settings.

 

Steven Rubin M.D. is a psychiatric physician specializing in adult and geriatric health care and has evaluated and treated patients and conducted training over the past 25 years. He is an author and national lecturer, consistently rated highly for his practical, informative and enjoyable continuing education programs.

 

OUTLINE

 

PRAGMATIC CLINICAL EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT

 

Aging and Emotional Health:

 

  • Mood Disorders: Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar
  • Personality & Thought Disorders: Schizophrenia
  • Psychoses, delirium and sundowning

 

Cognitive Deficits in middle and late-life

 

  • Natural & pathologic bio-psycho-social changes
  • Dementia
  • Alzheimer's
  • Parkinson's
  • Cardiovascular
  • Pulmonary & more
  • Stages and courses of dementias

 

Behavioral Problems and the Elderly

 

  • Substance Abuse
  • Issues of non-compliance
  • Resistance to care
  • Aggression
  • Failure to thrive

 

ASSESSMENT TOOLS FOR THE CLINICAL PRACTITIONER

 

  • History
  • Mental status examination
  • Standardized neuropsychological testing
  • Physical, laboratory and radiology findings

 

TREATMENT

 

Clinical Management

 

  • Treating disturbances of behavior, emotion and thought
  • Depression, ambivalence, suicide, and euthanasia
  • Dementia with behavior disturbance
  • Violence
  • Paranoia, psychosis and sundowning
  • Anxiety, OCD and PTSD
  • Decisional incapacity and non-competence
  • Treatment Interventions
  • Rules of least restriction
  • Physical, psychosocial & chemical restraint
  • Non-pharmacologic Treatment Interventions
  • Rules of least restriction, part 2
  • Environment and personnel compatibility
  • Community resources
  • Pharmacology Overview for Non-prescribers
  • Psychotropics: Their uses and abuses
  • Prescriptions that help, prescriptions that hinder
  • Alternative medicine
  • Facilitating prescriber, family and provider communications
  • Anger management for patients, families and clinicians

 

Preventative Health Care & Longevity

 

  • Minding your own mind
  • Essentials for avoiding, minimizing and navigating cognitive aging
  • Caregiver support
  • Hype, hope and happiness

 

OBJECTIVES

 

  • Describe the causes and criteria for diagnosing dementia and its stages.
  • Explain the implications for patients, families and care providers of the most commonly diagnosed dementia, Alzheimer's disease.
  • List the co-morbidities of most dementias.
  • Address acute behavior and emotional disruptions such as sundowning, delirium, violence and resistance to care.
  • Explain the significant relationship between health and the use of medications and other mind-altering substances.
  • Demonstrate pragmatic and accessible examination techniques for diagnosing mental and cognitive disorders.
  • Summarize the indications, potencies, benefits and risks of using prescription, over-the counter, and natural chemical agents for treating elderly mental health problems.
  • Explain the differences and similarities between anxiety, depression and bipolar disorders, especially as it relates to seniors, families, personal and professional caregivers.

 

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

 

Steven E. Rubin, M.D., is a board certified psychiatrist practicing clinical psychiatry in Reno, Nevada. As a licensed physician, Dr. Rubin has experience and expertise in acute and long-term medical and psychotherapeutic psychiatric care delivery in private and public sectors, and continues to provide psychiatric consultation in rehabilitation and extended care settings. His clinical scope of practice includes managing developmentally disabled young adults, assessing and treating cognitive, mood and behavioral geriatric declines, and stabilizing acute and chronically unstable psychiatric illnesses.

 

He began his medical career 30 years ago as a hospital orderly before becoming a Certified Respiratory Therapy Technician, working in emergency room, cardiac, neonatal and adult intensive care units in Evanston, Illinois. After graduating from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine over 20 years ago, he completed his internship at Duke University and psychiatry residency from the University of Virginia.

 

Dr. Rubin also serves on the Nevada State Medicaid Drug Review Board and various ethics committees for state and local medical associations. He is the author of Autumn Leaves, Aging With and Without Dementia, and speaks nationwide to clinicians on adult and geriatric psychiatric issues.

 


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Credit


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NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after completing the on-line post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). 

Continuing Education Information:  Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this non-interactive self-study package. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether self-study is an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.

Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.  

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Social Workers - Canadian Social Workers

PESI, Inc., #1062, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the course. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2017 - January 27, 2020. Social Workers completing this course receive 6.0 (Clinical) continuing education credits for completing this intermediate level self-study course. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to social workers who complete the program evaluation. Full attendance is required. No partial credit will be offered for partial attendance. Canadian provinces may accept activities approved by the ASWB for ongoing professional development.


Social Workers - Florida Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Mental Health Counselors

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PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. Provider Number #50-399. This self-study course qualifies for 6.0 continuing education credits.


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Psychologists - Canadian Psychologists

PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This program is approved for 6.0 self-study continuing education hours. Full credit statement at: www.pesi.com/cpa-statement


Psychologists - Florida Psychologists

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Marriage & Family Therapists - Marriage & Family Therapists

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Marriage & Family Therapists - Illinois Marriage & Family Therapists

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Addiction Counselors - NAADAC

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This self-study course has been approved by PESI, Inc., as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 6.0 CE in the Counseling Services skill group. NAADAC Provider #77553. PESI, Inc. is responsible for all aspects of their programming. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance.


California Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Counselors (CCAPP-EI)

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the CCAPP-EI, Provider #: OS-03-036-1025. This activity meets the qualifications for 6.0 CEH's (continuing education hours).


Connecticut Addiction Counselors

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Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and Clinical Nurse Specialists

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California Nurses

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Florida Nurses

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Florida Board of  Nursing. Provider #: FBN2858. These materials qualify for 6.0 self-study contact hours.

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Iowa Nurses

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Iowa Board of Nursing. Provider #: 346. Nurses successfully completing these self-study materials will earn 7.2 self-study contact hours. Please email cepesi@pesi.com with your license number, include the title, speaker name and date. PESI must have this number on file in order for your hours to be valid.


Pennsylvania Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage & Family Therapists

This intermediate activity is approved for 6.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please contact your licensing board to determine if they accept programs or providers approved by other national or state licensing boards. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who are in full attendance and who complete the program evaluation.


California Social Workers, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Licensed Educational Psychologists

The State of California, Board of Behavioral Sciences will recognize and accept continuing education programs that are sponsored by providers approved by the APA and the ASWB. Full participation in this self-study course will qualify for 6.0 hours of continuing education credit.


Other Professions

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Steven Rubin, MD, specializes in adult and geriatric neurocognitive and behavioral health care. He is certified by The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and has been in private practice for 30 years in Reno, Nevada.

Dr. Rubin earned his medical degree from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, completed his internship at Duke University and finished his psychiatry residency at the University of Virginia. He has been a clinical associate professor with the University of Reno School of Medicine and a member of the Nevada Medicaid Drug Utilization Review Board. He currently serves as a peer reviewer for the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners and provides forensic capacity assessments and expertise consultations.

He is the author of the book Autumn Leaves and other writings on dementia and aging. Dr. Rubin provides presentations on geriatric care to various health and civic groups across the nation. His professional mission is to deliver quality health care and education to geriatric patients, their families, and the community.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Steven Rubin has an employment relationship with Fallon Tribal Health Clinic and the Walker River Tribal Health Clinic. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Steven Rubin has no relevant non-financial relationships.


Target Audience

Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Therapists, Social Workers, Psychologists, Hospice Personnel, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses and other caring professionals

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