Pre-conference Session
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- Track: Clinical Practice
- CME/CE: 7.75
Additional fee session
HELP has been working to make health systems safer and health care more effective for over two decades, preventing delirium, functional decline, falls, and other adverse outcomes among hospitalized older adults. The AGS CoCare®: HELP program ultimately promotes a growing trend toward “age-friendly health systems,” so named because they promote unique expertise on geriatrics focal points: care for the mind, medications, mobility, and what “matters most” to patients. Join us at the AGS CoCare®: HELP Preconference and learn how to implement strategies for sustainability & longevity to ensure success of HELP in the hospital.
| Time | Topic | Speaker(s) |
| 7:00am | Registration & Breakfast | |
| 8:00am | Welcome / AGS CoCare®: HELP Overview & Future Directions | Lyn Weinberg, MD Director, Division of Geriatrics; HELP Medical Director Allegheny Health Network |
| 8:30am | CMS 2025 Age-Friendly Hospital Measure | Mark Supiano, MD, AGSF
Rebecca L. Trotta, PhD, RN Director, Nursing Research and Innovation; Director, Geriatric Programming - SOAR; Executive Director, Abramson Family Center for Nursing Excellence |
| 9:30am | Case Studies: Meeting Age-Friendly through AGS CoCare®: HELP | Kathryn Lawrence, MSN, RN-BC Clinic Registered Nurse
Morgan Mihok, MD, MA Geriatrician
Shannon Cotter, AMFT, APCC Elder Life Program Specialist, Hospital Elder Life Program
Anu Kirupananthan, AGAC NP-BC, MSN, RN Nurse Practitioner, Hospital Elder Life Program; Geriatric Education Supervisor |
| 10:30am | Break | |
| 10:45am | TBA | TBA |
| 11:30am | Picture & Lunch | |
| 12:30pm | Spotting Delirium in Superimposed Dementia: Screening & Identifying | Mfon Umoh, MD, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, Geriatric Medicine |
| 1:15pm | Networking Tables | |
| 2:15pm | The Power of Reporting | Jonny Macias Tejada, MD, AGSF Medical Director, Acute Care for Elders; AGS CoCare: Hospital Elder Life Program, Senior Services
Christopher Rubach, MBA, PMP Project Coordinator, Senior Services |
| 3:00pm | Break | |
| 3:15pm | Unlocking Volunteer Potential: Training, Managing, Retaining & More | Ibiyo Lawrence, MD, FACP Associate Professor of Medicine, Division Chief Geriatrics
Dhyana Vélez, MHA, RN, GERO-BC, GRN Geriatric Coordinator-Director, Hospital Elder Life Program |
| 4:00pm | Creating the Demand for AGS CoCare: HELP | Malaz A. Boustani, MD, MPH Richard M. Fairbanks Professor of Aging Research |
| 4:45pm | Closing Remarks and Adjournment |