Pre-conference Session
AGS CoCare®: HELP (Hospital Elder Life Program) Pre-Conference Session
- Date:
- Time: -
- Track: Clinical Practice
- Location: Grand Hall I-J
- 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 |
9:30am | Case Studies: Meeting Age-Friendly through AGS CoCare®: HELP | Kathryn Lawrence, MSN, RN-BC Morgan Mihok, MD, MA Shannon Cotter, AMFT, APCC Anu Kirupananthan, AGAC NP-BC, MSN, RN |
10:30am | Break | |
10:45am | Teamwork in Medication Management: Deprescribing for Better Patient Outcomes | Heather Sakely, PharmD, BCPS, BCGP Director, PGY2 Geriatric Pharmacy Residency; Director, Clinical Pharmacist Services University of Pittsburgh Medical Center St. Margaret |
11:30am | Picture & Lunch | |
12:30pm | Spotting Delirium Superimposed on Dementia: Screening & Identifying | Mfon Umoh, MD, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, Geriatric Medicine The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
1:15pm | Networking Tables | |
2:15pm | The Power of Reporting | Jonny Macias Tejada, MD, AGSF Christopher Rubach, MBA, PMP |
3:00pm | Break | |
3:15pm | Unlocking Volunteer Potential: Training, Managing, Retaining & More | Ibiyo Lawrence, MD, FACP Dhyana Vélez, MHA, RN, GERO-BC, GRN |
4:00pm | Creating the Demand for AGS CoCare: HELP | Malaz A. Boustani, MD, MPH Richard M. Fairbanks Professor of Aging Research Professor of Medicine; Adjunct Professor of Surgery; Founding Director and Implementation Scientist, Center for Health Innovation & Implementation Science; Founding Director, Chief Innovation and Implementation Officer, Sandra Eskenazi Center for Brain Care Innovation; Research Scientist, Indiana University Center for Aging Research; Director, Senior Care Innovation, Eskenazi Health Indiana University School of Medicine |
4:45pm | Closing Remarks and Adjournment |