Course Description
Course Description:
Rehabilitation professionals working with older adults encounter individuals with deficits in strength, endurance and aerobic capacity regularly. It is critical that rehabilitation professionals are skilled in screening and assessing these deficits and adequately performing interventions to address them.
This course will not only discuss the causes and contributing factors to these deficits but it was also discussed assessment tools, evaluation techniques, standardized assessments and patient interventions. The information introduced will be summarized at the end of the course and presented in a case study.
 Contact Hours: 3 |  |
 Target Audience: |
Instructional Level: Intermediate |
BOC Level of Difficulty: Essential |
Accreditation Information:
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Course Outline:
Hour 1
- Physical Inactivity
- Principles of Exercise Prescription
- Physical Activity:
- types of contractions
- frequency, mode and duration
- contraindications and precautions of aerobic exercise
- Strengthening exercises
- Stretching
Hour 2
- Impaired aerobic capacity
- Cardiovascular disease risk factors
- Tests and Measures for Aerobic Capacity
- Aerobic Capacity
- Evaluation, Diagnosis and Prognosis
Hour 3
- Aerobic Capacity
- Evaluation, Diagnosis and Prognosis
- How to interpret vital signs
- Aerobic Capacity
- Evaluation, Diagnosis and Prognosis
- Factors impacting aerobic capacity
- Aerobic capacity interventions
Course Goals & Objectives:
Course Goals:
While rehabilitation professionals have knowledge of exercise prescription, many do not have an understanding of how the prescription variables change for older adults with strength and aerobic capacity deficits. Having this in-depth understanding will impact treatment effectiveness and outcomes for these patients.
Professional Objectives:
- Identify 3 conditions that older adults are more susceptible to when they are physically inactive.
- Identify 3 key principles of exercise prescription.
- List 2 ways that the intensity of aerobic exercise can be assessed or monitored in older adults.
- Identify how 1 repetition maximum (1 RM) can be utilized to prescribe an appropriate level of strengthening exercises in older adults.
- List 2 common muscles that need stretching in older adults
- List 3 factors that could be responsible for impaired aerobic capacity in older adults
- Cardiovascular disease risk factors should be assessed for in all patients with impaired aerobic capacity. List 5 of these risk factors.
- Identify 3 of the tests and measures that are utilized to assess aerobic capacity in older adults.
- List 3 aerobic exercise contraindications for older adults
- Identify 5 factors that impact prognosis in older adults with aerobic capacity impairments.
- Recognize 3 interventions that can be utilized with older adults to improve aerobic capacity.
Disclosures:
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Contact Hours: 3 contact hours in length (check your state’s approval status in the state specific course catalog for your profession).
Target Audience: Physical Therapist, Physical Therapist Assistant, Occupational Therapist, Occupational Therapist Assistant, Speech Language Pathologist, Nurse, Nursing Home Administrator, Social Worker, and Activities Professionals.
Instructional Level: Intermediate
BOC Level: Essential
Criteria for Completion: Criteria for Completion: A score of 70% or more is considered passing. Scores of less than 70% indicate a failure to understand the material and the test will need to be taken again until a passing score has been achieved
Personnel Disclosure:
Financial – Suzanne Greenwalt is employed by Belmont University and receives a salary. She receives payment from HomeCEU for the presentation of this course.
Nonfinancial - no relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
Content Disclosure: This course does not focus solely on any specific product or service
Cancellation Policy: For activity cancellation, returns, or complaint resolution, please contact us by email help@homeceu.com or by phone at 1.800.55.4CEUS (2387). We have a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Refunds will be issued for courses that have not been completed (exam not taken), or for any course that has been rejected by your board of approval. Webinar attendance must be canceled 24 hours before the scheduled start time.
Authors:
Suzanne J. Greenwalt, PT, DPT, CCS, GCS
Suzanne Greenwalt, PT, DPT, CCS, GCS has been a physical therapist since 2002. She is an Instructor in the School of Physical Therapy at Belmont University. She is also a physical therapist with a long term care company. In addition, she is a mentor and educator in one of the APTA’s credentialed Geriatric Residency Programs. She received her GCS in 2011 and is an APTA Certified Clinical Instructor.
Suzanne has been working in geriatrics for most of her career in a variety of settings including skilled nursing facilities, acute care hospitals, and out-patient rehabilitation. She received her Masters degree in Physical Therapy and her Bachelors degree in Exercise Science, both from Saint Louis University. Her interest areas in both patient care and research are geriatrics and cardiopulmonary comorbidities in the geriatric population.
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