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The Older Patient: Updates and Challenges


ONLINEENDURING MATERIALACCME

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Date & Location
Sunday, September 20, 2020, 12:00 AM - Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 12:00 PM

Overview

This online lecture provides physicians and other healthcare practitioners updates on current issues related to healthcare. The lecture will be maximum of one hour in length, followed by post test. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about the updates and challenges related to older patients.

  • Release Date: September 20, 2021
  • End Date: September 20, 2021

Target Audience
Specialties - Allied Health Professionals, Dentists, Nurses, Pharmacists, Physicians, Researchers, Students

Overall Learning Objective
  1. Identify common health issues related to older adults
  2. Evaluate the challenges related to the older patient
  3. Construct evidence-based management to common dilemmas relevant to the older patient

Registration
FREE of charge

Accreditation

The Department of Healthcare Professions (DHP) considers Asynchronous activities under Category 2 as self-directed learning.  

 

 

Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosure of Relationships/Content Validity

It is the policy of Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar to Department of Healthcare Professions (DHP) and Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) Criteria, Policies, and Standards for Commercial Support and content validation in order to ensure fair balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all its sponsored programs. All faculty participating in sponsored programs are expected to disclose relevant financial relationships pertaining to their contribution to the activity, and any discussions of off-label or investigational uses of approved commercial products or devices, or of any products or devices not yet approved in the United States and elsewhere. WCM-Q CME/CPD activities are intended to be evidence-based and free of commercial bias. 

Bibliography:

DrugsLocquet, M., Beaudart, C., Reginster, JY. et al. Calcif Tissue Int (2018). 

Fried LP, Tangen CM, Walston J, et al. Frailty in older adults:evidence for a phenotype.J Gerontol Ser A Biol Med Sci2001;56(3):M146-M157.

Mason MC, et.al. Establishing a proactive geriatrician led comprehensive geriatric assessment in older emergency general surgery patients:outcomes of a pilot study.Int J Clin Pract. 2018 May;72(5):e13096.

Mittaz Hager, et. al. (2019). Effects of three home-based exercise programmes regarding falls, quality of life and exercise-adherence in older adults at risk of falling: protocol for a randomized controlled trial. BMC geriatrics, 19(1), 13. doi:10.1186/s12877-018-1021-y   
 

Munson JC, Bynum JPW, Bell J-E, et al. Patterns of prescription drug use before and after fragility fracture. JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 22, 2016. 

 

Abrahamsen, B., et. al.. (2016). Risk of hip, subtrochanteric, and femoral shaft fracturesamong mid and long term users of alendronate: nationwide cohort and nested case-control study. BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 353, i3365. doi:10.1136/bmj.i3365

 

Williamson JD, WB, et al. Intensive vs. standard blood pressure control and cardiovascular

disease outcomes in adults aged ≥75 years. JAMA. 2016;315(24):2673–82.

 

Ghafouri, et.al. (2014). Urinary incontinence in Qatar: A study of the prevalence, risk factors and impact on quality of life. Arab journal of urology, 12(4), 269-74.

 

Wastesson J,et. al. (2018) An update on the clinical consequences of polypharmacy in older adults: a narrative review, Expert Opinion on Drug Safety,17:12, 1181196, DOI: 

10.1080/14740338.2018.1546841

 

NEJM JW Gen Med May 15 and JAMA Apr 17; 319:1592). 

 

Musaiger A, et. Al. Journal of Women & Aging, 25:273–280, 2013.

 

 

 



Member Information
Role in activity
Nature of Relationship(s) / Name of Ineligible Company(s)
Safia Rabia, Engineering in Biology
CPD Coordinator
Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar
Doha, Qatar
Administrative Contact
Employee-Al Wehda Medical Group
Faculty Photos
Aicha Hind Rifai, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar
Doha, Qatar
Course Director
Nothing to disclose
Faculty Photos
Mai A. Mahmoud, MD
Associate Professor of Teaching in Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar
Doha, Qatar
Faculty
Nothing to disclose
Faculty Photos
Deema Al-Sheikhly, MRes, MEHP
Director, Medical Education and Continuing Professional Development
Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar
Doha, Qatar
Planning Committee Member
Nothing to disclose

This activity received no commercial support.

Presentation and Post-Test

Instructions: Please ensure you register first by clicking the 'Register' or 'Purchase' button. Once registered, you will be able to launch the video and view the presentation. 

To receive your credit for this activity, you must: complete the Post-test and obtain 70% passing score within 3 attempts. Complete the evaluation by going to "My CE" on your profile and then 'Evaluations and Certificates'.

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