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Skilled Nursing Facilities Series: Older Adult Issues with Medications
Activity description
The use of multiple drugs to treat diseases and other health conditions is known as polypharmacy. This is a growing concern for older adults. Polypharmacy is more common among older adults and adverse drug reactions (ADRs) can occur. Medication adherence is also a major challenge for older adults who are often at higher risk for nonadherence due to poor health literacy and decreased cognitive function. This activity will discuss polypharmacy, medication adherence and safety concerns for older adults.
Provided by
This activity is provided by Optum Health Education and Senior Community Care – Optum Home and Community.
Commercial support
No commercial support was received for this activity.
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Target Audience
This activity is designed to meet the educational needs of nurses, social workers and other health care professionals (HCPs) who have an interest in learning about older adult issues with medication.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Identify the common medications used by older adults and their potential risks.
- Identify communication barriers with older adults, particularly in the context of medication management.
- Analyze the physiological changes in older adults that impact medication efficacy and safety.
- Demonstrate how to conduct a medication review with older adults that includes active listening and responding to concerns.
- Implement feedback mechanisms to continuously improve patient care and medication safety outcomes.
- Design interventions that incorporate practical elements to improve medication adherence and safety among older adults.
- Discuss the role of geriatric syndrome and the impact on clinical and non-clinical members of interprofessional teams when managing older adults' medication regimens.
- Reflect on current personal and organizational medication administration practices and their impact on safety and care for older adults.
Presenters
Monica Ott, MD, CMD
Midwest Market Medical Director
Senior Community Care
Optum Home & Community
Brittany Briscoe, MSN,APRN,FNP-C
Instructional Design Consultant
Housecalls National Education Team
UnitedHealth Group
Activity planners
Rebecca Gleason
Clinical Activity Manager
Optum Health Education
Disclosures of relevant financial relationships
In accordance with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education's (ACCME) Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, Optum Health Education (OHE) requires all those in control of educational content to disclose their financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. Ineligible companies are defined by the ACCME as companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care products used by or on patients. Individuals must disclose all financial relationships, regardless of the amount, with ineligible companies and regardless of their view of the relevance of the relationship to the education. OHE ensures that the content is independent of commercial bias.
The activity faculty and planners have no financial relationships to disclose.
Method for calculating CE credit
CE credit was calculated by the complexity of content.
Accreditation statement
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Optum Health Education and Senior Community Care – Optum Home and Community. Optum Health Education is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the health care team.
Credit designation statements
Physicians
Optum Health Education designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nurses
The participant will be awarded up to 0.75 contact hour(s) of credit for attendance and completion of supplemental materials.
Nursing Home Administrators
This program has been approved for Continuing Education for 0.50 total participant hours by NAB/NCERS—approval #20251006-1.25-A106022-DL
Social workers
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Optum Health Education is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Optum Health Education maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 0.75 continuing education credits.
Attendance
A certificate of attendance will be provided to learners upon completion of activity requirements, enabling participants to register with licensing boards or associations that have not been preapproved for credits. To apply for credit types not listed above, participants should use the procedure established by the specific organization from which they wish to obtain credit.
Available Credit
- 0.75 AMA - Physicians
- 0.75 ANCC - Nurses
- 0.75 Attendance - General Attendance
- 0.75 NAB - Nursing Home Administers
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