Hospice & Palliative Care

Speakers: Larry Durlofsky, DO, MS
Psychiatrist
Bala Cynwyd, PA

Anna Kimelfeld, ANP, DNP, PMHNP-BC
AVP of I-SNP & GCC Clinical Services
Elderplan and MJHS

Purpose: This webinar is intended to promote a greater understanding of how to differentiate and approach the treatment of delirium, depression, and dementia in the elderly patients residing at home or in skilled nursing facilities.

Objectives:  

1. Define delirium, depression, and dementia, and review their presentation in the elderly patients residing at home or in skilled nursing facilities.
2. Review assessment strategies that can help differentiate delirium, depression, and dementia.
3. Discuss some of the treatment approaches to address symptoms of delirium, depression, and dementia in elderly patients residing in different settings.
4. Address the importance of approaching the topic of suicidality when working with elderly patients in different settings.
5. Discuss some assessment techniques that can help to identify risk factors and protective factors when assessing suicidality in the geriatric population.

Continuing Education Credits: 1.5

Continuing Education Accreditation

Physicians: The AAFP has reviewed MJHS 2024-2025 Interprofessional Webinar Series - Enduring, and deemed it acceptable for AAFP credit. Term of approval is from 09/26/2024 to 09/25/2025. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This session Challenges and Opportunities in Addressing Delirium, Dementia, Depression, and Suicidality in the Elderly is approved for 1.5 enduring AAFP Elective credits.
Note: Physicians should contact their respective licensing boards and specialty certification boards about acceptance of AAFP Elective credits when attempting to satisfy CME credit requirements.

Nurses: The MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Social Workers: MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0242.

Fees: Free (includes CME/CE certificate)

Release Date: October 14, 2024

Expiration Date: October 2, 2025 (for physicians and non-physicians); February 1, 2025 (for nurses); January 31, 2025 (for NYS Social Workers)

Disclosures:
Larry Durlofsky, DO, MS, and Anna Kimelfeld, ANP, DNP, PMHNP-BC, have no financial arrangements or affiliations with any commercial entities whose products, research, or services may be discussed in these materials. Any discussion of investigational or unlabeled uses of a product will be identified.

No Planning Committee Member has any disclosures.

Planning Committee Members
Myra Glajchen, DSW
Kerrianne P. Page, MD, HMDC
Joyce Palmieri, MS, RN, CHPN
Karen Richards, PhD, EdS

Funding Disclosure: No commercial funding has been accepted for the activity.

Location: Online at https://www.mjhspalliativeinstitute.org/e-learning/