Older and Wiser: Essential Knowledge for the Management of Older Adults
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About the Course:
This course will discuss specific medication issues that can occur in older adults and how pharmacists can help manage these issues. A discussion of fall risk and prevention and the Beer’s criteria for potentially inappropriate medications in older adults will be included, as well as a discussion about deprescribing guidelines.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, the learner should be able to:
Melanie Padgett, PharmD earned her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Duquesne University. She has been a community pharmacist for seven years and has experience writing for medical education companies. She has completed additional training in immunizations, pain management, and diabetes.
How to receive credit:
This course will discuss specific medication issues that can occur in older adults and how pharmacists can help manage these issues. A discussion of fall risk and prevention and the Beer’s criteria for potentially inappropriate medications in older adults will be included, as well as a discussion about deprescribing guidelines.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, the learner should be able to:
- Discuss the physiologic changes that occur in older adults which make them distinct from the general population.
- Review the current theories of Alzheimer’s disease pathophysiology.
- Identify patients who present with Alzheimer’s disease based on its criteria for diagnosis.
- Recommend appropriate therapy for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease with respect to its mechanisms, dosing, and adverse effects.
- Identify patients who present with Parkinson’s disease based on its criteria for diagnosis.
- Discuss the current FDA-approved therapies for Parkinson’s disease, including mechanism, dosing, and adverse effects.
- Recognize medications from the most current Beer’s criteria of potentially inappropriate medications to be used in older adults.
- Define the process of deprescribing and discuss how it relates to older adults.
- Develop a plan for incorporating “brown bag” medication reviews into practice, which focus on common issues for older adults.
Melanie Padgett, PharmD earned her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Duquesne University. She has been a community pharmacist for seven years and has experience writing for medical education companies. She has completed additional training in immunizations, pain management, and diabetes.
How to receive credit:
- A minimum test score of 75 percent is needed to obtain a credit.
Activity Type - Knowledge-based
Target Audience - Pharmacists, Pharmacists Technicians
Disclosures:
- Contact hours will be awarded through the expiration date.
- You must score 75% or higher on the final exam and complete the course evaluation to pass this course and have your record of completion submitted through CPE Monitor and to the NABP.
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- All persons involved in the planning and development of this course have disclosed no relevant financial relationships or other conflicts of interest related to the course content.