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Discover the strategies that are transforming geriatric healthcare!

With everything from neurocognitive disorders, geriatric emergencies, lack of home support, nutrition/eating, and psychosocial impacts, in addition to non-compliance challenges... your clinical decision making is put to the test every day!

When you participate in this exclusive online event, you'll get personalized training from two leading geriatric authorities, Kiplee Bell, MD, PA, & Vanessa Ruiz, ND, RN-BSN.

They'll share powerful clinical insights on every aspect of geriatric care. Here's what you can expect.

  • Earn up to 12.5 CE Hours
  • Includes up to 5.0 pharmacology CE hours
  • Ideal training for: NPs, PAs, RNs, PTs, SLPs, SWs, & NHAs
  • Must-know details on recently approved dementia medications
  • Latest CDC guidelines for pain management
  • New Beers criteria to update your practice
  • Best practice interventions for challenging geriatric behaviors
  • Watch the videos at your own pace and schedule

Managing the needs of your complex geriatric patients is a significant responsibility. You are guaranteed to feel more confident in the care you provide to older patients, as you access the latest evidence and guidelines to impact your own clinical decisions!

The content is presented in video modules that are made to be completed at your own pace. We know you're busy... so learn on your own schedule. It's easy when you have lifetime access to the entire course!

Mastering Geriatric Care
Dementia Treatments, Geropharmacology, Challenging Behaviors, Emergency Interventions, & Herbal Therapeutics

$549.99 Value
Yours Today for Only $199.99!
Earn up to 12.5 CE Hours, including up to 5.0 pharmacology CE hours!
Click here for Credit hours breakdown | Click here for course objectives and outline

You will unlock the must-know geriatric updates that you don't want to miss out on!

We guarantee you will advance your knowledge and skills to be able to deliver the very best care to your older adult patients. Here are just a few of the topics planned:

  • Recently approved dementia pharmacological treatments
  • Medication updates — Pain, anxiety, depression, & more!
  • Crucial initial interventions for geriatric emergencies
  • New guidelines to deprescribe safely
  • Successful management of challenging geriatric behaviors
  • Safe herbal pharmacology uses in older adults
  • Root cause evaluation of problematic insomnia

But that's not all... you truly will have an incredible opportunity to learn from two geriatric authorities…


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Mastering Geriatric Care
Dementia Treatments, Geropharmacology, Challenging Behaviors, Emergency Interventions, & Herbal Therapeutics

$549.99 Value
Yours Today for Only $199.99!
Earn up to 12.5 CE Hours, including up to 5.0 pharmacology CE hours!
Click here for Credit hours breakdown | Click here for course objectives and outline
What You'll Learn

Objectives

  1. Evaluate the latest Beers criteria to ensure safe medication management for patients.
  2. Choose effective communication strategies to use with patients and their families.
  3. Appraise the new CDC guidelines for pain management in the elderly.
  4. Analyze the overlap between the clinical and bedside geriatric assessment.
  5. Determine appropriate use of newly approved medications for dementia treatment.
  6. Choose the pharmacological option for complicated geriatric mental health needs.
  7. Choose effective communication strategies to use with patients and their families.
  8. Formulate best practice responses to common challenging geriatric behaviors at the bedside.
  9. Develop risk reduction strategies for a variety of geriatric emergencies.
  10. Create an integrative lifestyle plan to support a patient with insomnia.
  11. Manage chronic pain with non-pharmacological interventions.
  12. Assess potential drug-to-herb interactions.
  13. Evaluate pharmacological actions and therapeutics of commonly used herbal medicines.
  14. Determine appropriate indications for herbal medicines and supplementation in practice.

Outline

Dementia Treatment – Including the Newly Approved Medications

  • Determine a patient’s capability and functional capacity
  • Normal vs. abnormal aging
  • Updates on the very latest dementia agents
  • Specific dementias: Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease & substance-Induced neurocognitive disorder
  • Communication strategies to ensure safety and success
  • Engage families to avoid participation pitfalls
  • Best Practices to Manage Geriatric Behaviors
  • Sundowning aggression
  • Effective approaches for hallucinations, hygiene, intimacy & repetitive behavior concerns
  • Signals of depressive and anxious behaviors
  • Interventions for nutrition/eating concerns
  • Update your toolbox to address noncompliance challenges

Geriatric Pharmacology Updates

  • NEW Beers updates
  • Reconciliation strategies — prescribed, over-the-counter & nutraceuticals
  • Tips to avoid polypharmacy concerns
  • Key pharmacodynamic and drug-to-drug interaction considerations
  • Best prescriptive practices for antidepressants, anxiolytics, and antipsychotics
  • Latest CDC updates for pain management for the elderly

The Latest Guidelines to Prevent Geriatric Emergencies in Practice

  • Cardiac emergencies
  • Respiratory emergencies
  • GI emergencies
  • GU emergencies
  • Neurologic emergencies
  • Musculoskeletal emergencies

Explore Root Causes of Insomnia and Chronic Pain in the Elderly

  • Nervous system dysregulation
  • Inflammation
  • Oxidative stress
  • Dysbiosis and the gut-brain axis
  • Nutrient deficiencies and malabsorption
  • Common psychosocial factors

Interventions for Chronic Pain through Integrative and Lifestyle Medicine

  • Restorative yoga and chair yoga
  • Acupressure techniques
  • Breathwork using biofeedback
  • Hydrotherapy

Specific Mind-Body Therapies to Address Insomnia in Older Adults

  • Hypnotherapy and storytelling
  • Progressive muscle relaxation
  • Aromatherapy and breathwork
  • Yoga Nidra

Geriatric Pharmacology of Herbal Therapeutics

  • Quality and safety considerations of supplementation and herbs
  • Anti-inflammatory herbs and pain management
  • Gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, endocrine, cognitive & pulmonary support 
  • Immune system focused herbs
  • Common herbs for brain health and mood
  • Medication interactions from supplements
Join your trailblazing expert presenters who both walk the talk. Kiplee Bell, MD, PA, and Vanessa Ruiz, ND, RN-BSN, are lifelong learners, pursuing advanced medical degrees after they began in their respective healthcare roles. Kiplee and Vanessa see complex patients in their current clinical practices and are sought after as nationally recognized presenters.

Mitch Hauschildt
New Standards of Geriatric Care: Geropharmacology, Dementia Treatments, Challenging Behaviors & Emergency Interventions
Kiplee Bell, MD, PA | Click here for information about Kiplee Bell

**3 pharmacology CE hours**

  • Updates on the very latest dementia agents
  • Interventions for nutrition/eating concerns
  • Reconciliation strategies - prescribed, over the counter & nutraceuticals
  • Best practices to manage geriatric behaviors
  • Tips to avoid polypharmacy concerns & the new Beers Criteria
  • Latest guidelines to prevent geriatric emergencies in practice

Kiplee Bell, MD, PA, is a thought leader and sought-after medical lecturer. She earned board certification as a Physician Assistant, an additional master's degree in Gerontology, and finally her Doctorate in Medicine. Over the course of her career, Kiplee has worked in acute care, urgent care, ambulatory care, and long-term care settings. Currently, she treats geriatric patients in her practice, is the CEO of Impactful Caregiving, a professional education and consultation company, and Impactful Care, her Telehealth Brand. Additionally, Kiplee enjoys 'real talk' on her themed podcast CarePOD.

Mitch Hauschildt
Including Natural and Alternative Treatments in Geriatric Care: Insomnia, Chronic Pain, Cognition, GI & More
Vanessa Ruiz, ND, RN-BSN | Click here for information about Vanessa Ruiz

**2 pharmacology CE hours**

  • Root causes of insomnia and chronic pain in the elderly
  • Geriatric pharmacology of herbal therapeutics
  • Quality and safety considerations of supplementation and herbs
  • Anti-inflammatory herbs and pain management
  • Common herbs for brain health and mood
  • Medication interactions with supplements

Vanessa Ruiz, ND, RN-BSN, is a Naturopathic Physician and Registered Nurse. Her passion for integrative health led her to a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine degree from Southwest College in Tempe, Arizona. Previously, Vanessa worked as a nurse for over 10 years, including a focus 0n geriatric patient care. She shares her expertise nationally, speaking on various functional and geriatric medicine topics. Vanessa maintains an active clinical practice, is the founder of Nurses for Natural Health, and volunteers through the Medical Reserve Corps and Naturopaths without Borders.
Mastering Geriatric Care
Dementia Treatments, Geropharmacology, Challenging Behaviors, Emergency Interventions, & Herbal Therapeutics

$549.99 Value
Yours Today for Only $199.99!
Earn up to 12.5 CE Hours, including up to 5.0 pharmacology CE hours!
Click here for Credit hours breakdown | Click here for course objectives and outline
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