Spring Geriatric Mental Health Conference
"If I Were Your Age, I'd Be Depressed Too…and Other Myths on Aging and Mental Health"
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Carl Hayden VA Medical Center Ambulatory Care Conference Center
650 E. Indian School Road
Phoenix, AZ
Designed to dispel prevalent myths regarding aging and mental health, this conference will focus on best practices to enhance healthcare for older adults with various geriatric mental health disorders. Some of the best healthcare professionals in Arizona will present to healthcare professionals caring for older adults: physicians, psychologists, NPs, PAs, nurses, case managers, social workers, and professional community providers.
2nd Annual Summer Nursing Conference - Acute Care Issues
August - date and location to be determined
20th Annual Fall Symposium - "Promoting Wellness in the 21st Century"
Friday-Saturday, November 14-15, 2008
Black Canyon Conference Center
9440 N. 25th Avenue
Phoenix, AZ
Topics and workshops: Healthcare and Healthy Aging in the 21st Century, Benefits and Pitfalls of Screening the 80+ Patient, Strategies for Manage Weight Loss and Weight Gain, Issues from an Orthopedic Perspective, Developing and Exercise Program for Your Elderly Patients, Living to 100, Cognitive Aspects of Aging, Dementia Update: What Is Normal in the Memory Spectrum, Recipes for Brain Health: Use It or Lose It, Sleep and It's Impact on Aging, Recipe for a Good Night's Sleep, Vitamin Supplements and Health Aging, Medicare Tomorrow: Can We Maintain Quality with Less Money?, The Art of Geriatrics: Don't Give Up Too Soon and Don't Give Up Too Late, Patient Safety: Dealing with MRSA, Update in Geriatric Literature, What Every Geriatrician and Geriatric Health Provider Needs to Know About Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plan, Pain Management and Elderly, Driving Algorithms, Common Ethical Delimmas Working with Older Adults, Cardiac Disease in Elderly Women.
2008 MEMBERSHIP DINNER PROGRAMS
Topics and Speakers
| Wed, February 6 - |
Aortic Aneurysm & Related Pathologies
Sponsor: Arizona Heart Institute
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| Thurs, March 13 - |
DVT AwareCare - Appropriate DVT/PE
Prophylaxis Across the Healthcare Continuum
Sponsor: Sanofi-aventis
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| Thurs, April 24 - |
Diagnosis & Management of CKD Related
Anemia in Older Adults
Sponsor: Amgen
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| Thurs, May 15 - |
Depression & Anxiety: Untreated in Long-Term
Care - Walter Nieri, MD
Sponsor: Forest
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| Wed, June 4 - |
Lewy Body Dementia - Alvin Burstein, MD
Sponsor: To Be Determined
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| September - |
Depression ??
Sponsor: Wyeth
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| October - |
Legal Issues by Jackson White Law Firm
Sponsor: To Be Determined
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| December - |
Tentative: Enhanced Vertebroplasty for Metestatic
Disease
Sponsor: Arthrocare
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