Course Description
Course Description:
Are you ready to handle the booming influx of older adults seeking expert care to keep them moving? In this two-part seminar, clinicians will explore traditional and emerging assessments and interventions to maximize function in elders with mobility impairments, from the frail SNF resident to the competitive athlete. Maximize function for improved quality of life in elders. Clinicians master solutions to aging challenges, including pain, diminished strength and flexibility, degenerative changes, balance issues, falls, cognitive decline and pathologies. Aging clients today are more active early on and tend to live longer, with greater chance of developing painful, degenerative and pathological changes that impact function and quality of life. This seminar presents evidence-based outcome measures in part one, with detailed examination tools.
Accreditation Information:
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Course Outline:
Hour 1
- Statistics on elder risks and falls
- Risk factors for Injury and Falls
- Cardiovascular, integumentary, neuromusculoskeletal and cognitive changes
- Mini Mental State Exam (MMSE)
- Montreal Cognitive Assessment Tool (MoCA)
- Physiology of Aging, balance strategies
- Medications risks
Hour 2
- Functional assessment tools
- Environmental Risk Factors
- What is Balance
- Balance Examination Tools
- Self-Reported Outcome Measures
- ADL Tools
- Functional Independence Measure (FIM)
- Low Functioning Exam Tools Sitting Tests
- Vertebral Artery Syndrome Test
- Functional Reach Test-Sitting (FRT)
- Function in Sitting Test (FIST)
- Test Requiring Standing
- Romberg Tests
Hour 3
- Unilateral Stance Test
- Functional Reach Test (FRT)- Standing
- Five Times Sit to Stand Test (FTSST)
- 30 Second Chair Stand Test
- Step Test
- Get Up and Go Test
- Timed Up and Go Test (TUG)
- Normative Values for Balance Tests
- Dynamic Test- Berg Balance Scale (BBS)
- Berg Balance Scale
- Tools with Gait Components
- Figure of 8 Walk Test
- Gait Speed Test- 6MWT
- Self-Selected Gait Speed Test
- Tinetti POMA
- Dynamic Gait Index- DGI
Hour 4
- Multicomponent More Advanced Tests
- Balance Evaluation Systems Test (BESTest)
- Four Step Square Test
- Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS)
- Lower Extremity Functional Scale (LEFS)
- Disabilities of the Arm Shoulder Hand
- Assessing Musculoskeletal Impairments and Myofascial Pain Skilled documentation
- AGS Summary
Course Goals & Objectives:
Course Goals:
This course is intended to instruct the professional on administering valid and reliable outcomes measures for elders using standardized techniques and normative reference values as described in current research.
Professional Objectives:
- Identify the epidemiology and risk factors for falls in the elderly
- List cardiopulmonary changes with aging
- Recognize age-related changes in the neuromuscular system
- List 7 risk factors associated with falls in the elderly
- Identify 2 cognitive assessment tools used to assess cognition
- List 3 medications that increase falls risk
- Define balance
- List 3 balance strategies
Disclosures:
SEMINAR-ON-DEMAND
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Contact Hours: 4 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
Instructional Level: Intermediate
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 – Theresa Schmidt is employed by Educise 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.