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COA-HC-RN: Health Promotion in the Home Care Setting
This course will help practitioners understand the importance of health literacy on health promotion in home care and how to best work with adult learners.
Course
COA-HC-RN: Dementia, Delirium, and Depression in Older Adults in the Home Care Setting
This course covers a wide range of information pertaining to dementia, delirium, and depression in older adults. This includes the etiology, risk factors, and signs and symptoms of depression, dementia, and delirium; common screening tools used to assess these three conditions, and non-pharmacological and pharmacological treatments of the conditions in older adults.
Course
COA-HC-RN: Chronic Health Conditions Among Older Adults in the Home Care
This course describes the guiding principles for managing multiple chronic conditions in home care, identifies the risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) in older adults, and explores how the pharmacologic management of CHD risk factors, namely DM, differs in older adults compared to younger adults.
Webinar
CNYGEC: Some Preventive Measures for the Elderly
This webinar from 2012 outlines some general prevention measures in the elderly such as vaccinations and exercise. Specific screenings related to aging covered in this module are cancer, cardiac disorders, vision/hearing impairment, osteoporosis, dementia and depression. Non-beneficial preventative strategies and medication reconciliation are also highlighted for review.