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Palliative Care Is More Care, Not Less, Rachel Selby-Penczak

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives:

1. Discuss the origins of hospice and palliative care.

2. Compare and contrast Curative, Palliative, and Hospice Models of Care.

3. Identify when palliative care is appropriate.

Palette: An Intergenerational Art Program To Improve Health Care Delivery And Health Outcomes Of Older Adults, Sadie Rubin

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives:

1. Demonstrate the positive out-comes of the PALETTE model in training and educating health pro-fessional students in gerontological experiences.

2. Describe the partnerships devel-oped and their importance in exe-cuting PALETTE programs.

3. Highlight student experiences in intergenerational visual arts and intergenerational movement arts.

Available Telephone Services For Older Virginians Who Are Deaf Or Hard Of Hearing, Clayton E. Bowen

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives:

1. To identify signs of hearing loss in older adults.

2. To introduce the Virginia Department for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (VDDHH) and some of its programs and services.

3. To examine three VDDHH services and qualification guidelines.

4. To review how service recipients benefit from these programs.

Sleep Disorders And Cardiac Consequences, Robert D. Vorona

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives:

1. Review the clear relationship between obstructive sleep apnea and hypertension.

2. Discuss the cardiac consequences of sleep apnea, including coronary heart disease, heart failure, and different dysrhythmias.

3. Understand that sleep disorders beyond obstructive sleep apnea, such as insufficient sleep itself, may have an impact on the cardiovascular system.

4. Appreciate the potential benefits of identifying and treating sleep disorders for our health.

Bringing Comfort To People With Advanced Dementia, Ann Wyatt

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives

1. Explain the purpose of looking at palliative care through a dementia lens.

2. Define dementia-capable palliative care.

3. Identify and provide examples of specific care practices that can bring comfort to people with advanced dementia.

4. Describe the process that staff use in identifying what brings comfort to individual residents.

The Necessity Of Leisure And Physical Activity, Alison Clarke, Stephanie Goode

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives

1. Explain the value and benefit of physical and leisure activity across the lifespan, regardless of physical limitations.

2. Identify barriers to participation in physical and leisure activity.

3. Discuss strategies to engage and maintain physical and recreational activity participation.

The Lifelong Learning Institute In Chesterfield: Ten Years Of Growing, Edward F. Ansello, Monica Hughes

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives

1. To review changes in patterns of continuing learning and non-traditional education.

2. To profile membership and their interests in lifelong learning.

3. To highlight the development of the Lifelong Learning Institute of Chesterfield as a possible model for replication.

Protecting The Vulnerable: Free Ways To Prevent Financial Exploitation, Christopher Desimone

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives

1. Relate recurring patterns of perpetrators who exploit older adults.

2. Describe no-cost actions to protect assets from financial exploitation.

3. Explain differences among types of power of attorney.

Remembering Through Music: Music Therapy And Dementia, Melissa Owens

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives

1. Define music therapy and its benefits with older adults with dementia and related disorders/ diseases.

2. Describe active and passive music therapy interventions and strategies for older adult populations.

3. Identify the ways a non-musician can use music to engage older adults and mitigate some symptoms of dementia.

Medications As A Risk Factor In Falls By Older Adults With And Without Intellectual Disabilities, Patricia Slattum, Edward F. Ansello

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives

1. Review common intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors for falls by older adults.

2. Compare risk factors for older adults with and without intellectual disabilities.

3. Focus on medications as a risk factor among a complexity of risk factors.

4. Suggest steps to improve appropriateness of medication regimens, as a step to help reduce risk for falls.

Virginia Post: Improving Patient- Physician Communication About End Of Life Care, Chris Pile, Laura Pole

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives

1. Examine the complexities of medical decision-making at the end of life and the inadequacy of advance directives alone to affect care at the end of life.

2. Demonstrate how effective communication can facilitate medical decision-making and improve congruency between care received and patient goals, priorities, and values.

3. Discuss the National POLST Paradigm and the current status of POST in Virginia.

Falling Down: Assessing The Risk Of Falls In Older Adults, Steven Morrison

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives

1. To provide an overview of the problems associated with falling in older adults.

2. To outline the strengths and weaknesses of the various screening tools used for effective evaluation of an individual’s fall risk.

3. To highlight the benefits of assessing physiological function when screening for falls risk.

Timeslips: Creativity For People With Dementia, Anne Davis Basting

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives

1. Recognize the value of creative storytelling for people with dementia, with its shift in emphasis from memory to imagination.

2. Understand the impact of creative storytelling upon facilitators, storytellers, audiences, and readers.

3. Explore the potential mechanisms at work in creative storytelling.

We Are Family: When Elder Abuse, Neglect, And Financial Exploitation Hit Home, Jeannie J. Beidler

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives

1. To describe a case, from discovery to prosecution, of familial abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation.

2. To demonstrate gaps in elder care policy.

3. To share my experience in order to help protect the vulnerable older adults.

The Fairfax County Hoarding Task Force, Michael Congleton

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives

1. Describe the reasons for forming the Fairfax County Hoarding Task Force.

2. Explain the organizational makeup of the Hoarding Task Force.

3. Understand the risk factors in hoarding and what is being done to address them.

Hoarding Behavior In The Elderly, Henriette Kellum

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives

1. Identify the medical and mental health factors that contribute to hoarding behavior.

2. Describe the unique aspects of hoarding in the elderly.

3. Examine intervention and treatment strategies.

Arthritis And Physical Activity In Mid- And Later-Life, Nicholas Turkas

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives

1. Describe some of the more common types of arthritic conditions.

2. Discuss co-morbidities or coexisting conditions often occurring with arthritis.

3. Describe the Arthritis Foundation as a relevant resource when dealing with arthritic conditions.

The Impact Of Providing Rehab Mobility Equipment To Those In Need, Bruce Stelmack, Brian Leitten

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives

1. Discuss the need to provide rehabilitation mobility equipment at no cost to those who have no other means to obtain it.

2. Assess the impact on a community when mobility equipment for underinsured impaired persons (“at risk”) cannot be secured.

3. Describe a successful recycling program that provides free rehabilitation mobility equipment.

4. Explain the importance of a community- based model to provide rehabilitation equipment.

Universal Design In Housing, Steve Hansler, Beth Glas

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives

1. Show how an aging population increases the need for housing that is accessible and adaptable.

2. Define visitability, universal design, and accessible design.

3. Explain ways to approach universal design including key factors.

4. Illustrate how universal design can be used in both renovation and new construction.

Alcohol, Medications, And Older Adults, Mailtreyee Mohanty, Patricia Slattum

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives

1. Describe patterns of simultaneous use of alcohol and Central Nervous System (CNS) - acting medications among older adults.

2. Understand the mechanisms of interaction between alcohol and CNS-acting medications and their consequences.

3. Identify strategies to prevent alcohol-medication interactions among older adults.

4. Recommend resources for older adults and service providers for identifying and managing problematic alcohol and medication use.

Habilitation Therapy In Dementia Care, Paul Raia

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives

1. To describe the goal of Habilitation Therapy and how it differs from other methods of dementia care, including rehabilitation.

2. To identify areas or domains in which we have opportunities to bring about and sustain positive emotions.

3. To discuss four communication strategies to use with mid- to laterstage Alzheimer’s patients.

Aging And The Behavioral Problems Of Brain Injury, Paul F. Aravich, Marylin Copeland

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives

1. List the various classes of brain injury.

2. Identify cognitive and emotional problems as among the most common and disabling complications of brain injury.

3. Assess challenges to successful aging with a brain injury.

4. Examine the consequences of inadequate systems of care for the challenging behaviors produced by brain injury.

Senior Meal Programs: Feeding A Crowd With Local Foods, Gordon Walker, Elyse Thierry

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives

1. Examine reasons for an institutional meal program to consider incorporating local food.

2. Identify potential community partners who might assist in moving such a program forward and the mutual benefits.

3. Describe the possible changes that an institution’s local food program can foster in the community at large.

Cpr And Dnr Decision Making, Viki Kind

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives

1. Examine the complexities of end-of-life care and obstacles to good DNR decision making.

2. Discuss CPR and its perceived vs. actual chances for success.

3. Demonstrate best practices for communicating about CPR.

4. Consider how the signing of the DNR is just one component of endof- life care.

Reverse Mortgages, Bruce Desimone

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives

1. Describe mobility rates among older adults.

2. Define a reverse mortgage and Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM), and their origins in Virginia.

3. Explain key HECM loan and counseling features.

4. Illustrate how these features may improve the lives of older Virginians.

Virginia's Money Follows The Person Demonstration, Jason A. Rachel, Karen Lawson

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives

1. Describe Virginia's Money Follows the Person Demonstration project, including the new services available to individuals through Virginia's Medicaid-funded home and community-based waiver program.

2. Explain how Virginia's Money Follows the Person Demonstration project, being administered by the Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS), would assist an individual in transitioning from a long-term care facility to the community.

3. Illustrate how someone might experience the MFP processes from pre-transition through post-transition.

The Older Inmate, Tara Livengood

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives

1. Present a general overview of elderly inmates, including statistics, characteristics, crimes, mental and medical illnesses, and disabilities.

2. Describe Virginia’s only geriatric correctional facility.

3. Explain the practice of release planning, focusing especially on geriatric release.

Sleep And Sleep Disorders In Later Life, Robert D. Vorona

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives

1. Describe basic changes in sleep that occur as we age.

2. Review several important sleep disorders common in later life

3. Discuss treatment modalities for these sleep disorders and potential benefits of therapy.

Activity Engagement For Persons With Dementia, Barbara Braddock, Ellen Phipps

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives

1. Describe a successful approach to activity engagement for persons with dementia.

2. Review three cognitive interventions useful for activity engagement for persons with dementia.

3. Discuss applications of this approach using university students in home visits.

No Wrong Door: Virginia’S Key Strategic Initiative For Long-Term Care, Molly Huffstetler

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives

1. Describe the rationale, current activities, and vision for No Wrong Door as it pertains to seniors, adults with disabilities, and their caregivers throughout Virginia.

2. Demonstrate the positive potential for collaboration among local long-term care service providers, both public and private.

3. Illustrate the benefits of coordinating long-term care services for an individual through Virginia’s No Wrong Door.