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2024 CALTCM Summit for Excellence: On-Demand Sessions
This year’s annual meeting is complemented by over 7 hours of asynchronous programming. The flexibility of online learning during this program will help you meet your educational needs while giving you the opportunity to recharge while in Napa. We suggest completing the on-demand content prior to the live program if your schedule permits. Several of the on-demand faculty members will be present in Napa and hosting roundtable discussions on Friday, September 27.
| 30 Minutes |
Advocating for the Underserved of California:
An Undeveloped Skill in Healthcare
Speaker: Noah Marco, MD, CMD
Learning Objectives:
1. Describe the value of advocacy for the underserved of California.
2. Discuss the keys to effective messaging with media and politicians.
3. Discuss the rewards of getting involved in advocacy efforts.
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| 60 Minutes |
The Critical Role of Geriatric Medicine and LTC:
Addressing the Paradoxical Challenges in our Current Healthcare System
Speaker: Kourosh A.P. Moshiri, MHA, MD, CMD, HMDC, FACP, FACCWS, AGSF
Learning Objectives:
1. Identify the paradox of rising healthcare costs coupled with the need for improved patient outcomes, especially in the context of
an aging population.
2. Discuss the demographic shift towards an older population and the subsequent strain on healthcare resources and infrastructure.
3. Analyze the fragmentation of care and its implications for patient continuity, quality, and overall system efficiency.
4. Review the four components of the Quadruple Aim and illustrate how the core concepts of geriatric medicine and long-term care (LTC) can align with and support these goals to create an effective, coordinated, multidisciplinary, age-friendly, patient-centered, and cost-effective healthcare system.
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| 45 Minutes |
New Drugs: A 2024 Update
Speaker: Aida Oganesyen, PharmD
Learning Objectives:
1. Identify trade and generic names of newly approved drugs in 2023-2024.
2. Describe the mechanism of action for three newly approved drugs and their black box warnings.
3. Differentiate newly approved drug agents that are appropriate for use in geriatrics.
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| 45 Minutes |
Transinstitutionalization, SMI, Overlap with Dementia Speakers: George Woods, MD, LFAPA and Glen Xiong, MD, CMD
Learning Objectives:
1. Examine the movement of people with behavioral health disability across institutions
2. Define diagnostic criteria for bipolar, schizophrenia, psychosis NOS, and dementia related behavioral disturbance (How/What?)
3. Examine benefits and limitations of current treatment for psychotic disorders
4. Discuss utility of antipsychotics for use in aggression
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| 45 Minutes |
Psychiatric Manifestations of Medical Disorders
Speakers: George Woods, MD, LFAPA and Glen Xiong, MD, CMD
Learning Objectives:
1. Recognize potential medical conditions causing psychiatric symptoms.
2. Assess treatment options in psychiatric manifestations of medical disorders.
3. Use cognitive screens in patients who exhibit psychiatric symptoms, yet also have medical disorders.
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| 60 Minutes |
Surrogate Decision Making and POLST:
A Practical and Ethical Framework for Facilities
Speaker: Jennifer Moore Ballentine, MA
Learning Objectives:
1. Distinguish roles and authorities of healthcare agents, surrogates, and long-term care patient representatives in relation to POLST
2. Assess strengths and weaknesses among the various surrogate roles
3. Identify ethical conflicts in decision making 4. Apply an ethical framework for resolving conflicts
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Innovative Activities for Wellness
Speaker: Rebecca Ferrini, MD, MPH, CMD
Learning Objectives:
1. Describe the importance of wellness activities in post-acute and long-term care settings.
2. Identify the impact of these activities on patient health outcomes and overall well-being.
3. Evaluate various types of activities and their suitability for different patient populations.
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| 30 Minutes |
Congestive Heart Failure: A 2024 UpdateSpeaker: Meenakshi Patel, MD, FACP, MMM, CMD
Learning Objectives:
1. Summarize the medical guidelines for management of CHF that impact long term care.
2. Discuss care transitions.
3. Apply case based approach to incorporate the guidelines. |
| 30 Minutes |
Strategies for Managing AnxietySpeaker: Jennifer Birdsall, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Review the prevalence of anxiety.
2. Define anxiety and its various symptoms and manifestations.
3. Discuss the risk factors for anxiety, with a specific emphasis on healthcare workers.
4. Teach and offer in-vivo practice of various anxiety-management techniques.
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| 45 Minutes |
Trauma Informed Care
Speakers: Jennifer Birdsall, Ph.D. and Rebecca Ferrini, MD, MPH, CMD
Learning Objectives:
1. Define "Trauma" and "Trauma Informed Care".
2. Discuss the impact and consequences of past traumatic experiences for individuals in post-
acute and long-term care facilities.
3. Review trauma-informed principles and practices and how to apply them.
4. Present case studies of trauma-informed care in practice. |
| 45 Minutes |
Managing with Mental Health in Mind: Key Strategies for Organizations and Managers to
Support Employee Well-BeingSpeaker: Jennifer Birdsall, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Review the state of workplace mental health.
2. Discuss specific mental health risk factors for healthcare employees.
3. Identify actions organizations can take to support workplace mental health
4. Discuss best in class mental health benefits organizations can consider in their employee
wellness strategy.
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