UPCOMING
AUTUMN CONFERENCES:
Impact Training - Evidence-based Depression Care - September 28, 2009
Washington State Residential Care Council - Conference October 12-13, 2009
NWGEC
ANNUAL TELEHEALTH SERIES:
GERIATRIC HEALTH PROMOTION FOR HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS
About the Series
Since 2006, the
University of
Washington NW Geriatric Education Center, UW Continuing Nursing Education and UW Telehealth Services
have partnered in telecasting a series
of continuing education programs for geriatric healthcare professionals
and family caregivers throughout
Western Washington. Utilizing presentations
developed by the NW Geriatric Education Center, the series assists
providers in developing and enhancing health promotion interventions to
prevent disease and postpone further disability for the older adults they
serve.
Nationally and regionally recognized faculty from
the University of Washington present each topic and facilitate discussion.
This ten-week series gives community-based providers working in the
field of aging the opportunity to access valuable information
without having to travel a great distance!
The annual series is cablecast weekly via the University of Washington Telehealth Network to
potential rural sites from January to mid-March each year.
Accreditation is available for
physicians, nurses, social workers,
counselors, and psychologists.
*Visit
this site in late autumn for information on the 2010 series!*
Topics
presented at the 2009 series:
Transitions of Care
Preventive Healthcare
Hypertension and Aging
Stress Management
Resilient Caregiving for Dementia
Patients
Dyspnea Management in COPD
Thyroid Dysfunction and Aging
Heart Failure in Older Adults
Shingles
Gastrointestinal
Health in Older Adults
SPONSORS:
UW Northwest Geriatric Education Center
UW School of Nursing, Continuing Nursing Education
De Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging
For more information: Call 206-685-7478 or email: patann@u.washington.edu
WORKSHOPS:
KEEPING
ELDERS HEALTHY: STRATEGIES
FOR HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS
The
Northwest Geriatric Education Center has been holding annual workshops in
Port Angeles, Washington, for over a decade, and in Wenatchee, Washington,
since 2005. Programs have covered a wide variety of healthcare
topics of interest to healthcare professionals and family
caregivers. The topics are presented by members of the University of
Washington faculty and take place in the spring.
Topics
presented in Port Angeles this past April were:
Sleep Disorders, Arthritis, Complementary Medicine-Herbals,
Dementia,
Treating Behavioral Disturbances in Dementia.
Topics presented in Wenatchee were: Sleep Disorders and Their Treatment, Geriatric Pharmacotherapy, Depression
in Late Life: A Psychiatric Perspective, Incontinence, Healthy
Habits: Seven Habits of Healthy People.
*Visit
this site early next year for information on the 2010 workshops!*
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