Pre-conference Session
- Date:
- Time: 7:00am - 5:30pm
- Track: Clinical Practice
- Location: Asia 4
- CME/CE: 7 - AMA Credits, AAFP Prescribed Credits, CMD Management Credits, Nursing Credits, Pharmacy Credits, Social Work Credits
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 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 and potential strategies for family and caregiver involvement to improve patient care.
Learning Objectives: (1) describe how delirium impacts older adults in the hospital; (2) identify nonpharmacologic approaches to prevent delirium; (3) apply strategies for how to include family and caregivers in your AGS CoCare®: HELP program in their hospital; (4) review the role of the Elder Life Nurse Specialist and how to retain and provide professional development; (5) describe strategies for success in developing a business case for your AGS CoCare®: HELP programs; (6) discuss perioperative multidisciplinary delirium prevention and how that aligns with AGS CoCare®: HELP; (7) identify business principles for aligning AGS CoCare®: HELP program goals with organizational priorities; and (8) describe strategies for success and sustainability for AGS CoCare®: HELP programs.
7:00 AM | Registration and Breakfast |
8:00 AM | Welcome/Introductions Eva M. Schmitt, PhD |
8:30 AM | AGS CoCare®: HELP Overview and Future Directions Sharon K. Inouye, MD, MPH |
9:30 AM | Keynote Address: Drugs and Delirium: Update, Beers Medications, and Deprescribing Noll L. Campbell, PharmD, MS |
10:30 AM | Break |
10:45 AM | Involving Family/Caregivers in Your AGS CoCare®: HELP Interventions Molly Anderson; Lyn Weinberg, MD & Rick Dahl |
11:45 AM | AGS CoCare®: HELP Photo |
12:00 PM | Lunch- Networking Tables |
1:15 PM | Postoperative Delirium Catherine Price, PhD, ABPP-CN |
2:00 PM | Breakout Session (Veteran Sites) Role of the Elder Life Nurse Specialist, Retention, and Professional Development Phyllis Glass, RN, MSN-BC; Miriam Beattie, DNP, GNP, ANP, APRN Breakout Session (Beginner Sites) Developing a Business Case for AGS Cocare®: HELP Program, How to Engage Geriatricians and Nursing Staff in Your Work Jonny Macias Tejada, MD; Wendy Zachary, MD; Amanda Schoettinger, LMSW, CDEM, CTRP-E |
3:00 PM | Break |
3:15 PM | Business Principles for Aligning HELP Program Goals with Organizational Priorities Lynn Hill Spragens, MBA |
4:15 PM | What Has 20 Years’ Experience with a Community-Based Hospital HELP Program Taught Me? Fred H. Rubin, MD |
5:00 PM | Closing Remarks and Adjournment Sharon K. Inouye, MD, MPH |