Prepare for Long term care with confidence

What your LTC 90-day path covers

• ✓What actually changes with age, and what does not
• ✓Function as a vital sign
• ✓Comprehensive assessment and what the whole picture is for
• ✓Frailty: measuring reserve and what it predicts
• ✓Delirium: the commonest thing nobody diagnoses
• ✓Depression, apathy and the mood that gets called dementia
• ✓Sensory loss, sleep and the syndromes nobody codes
• ✓The dementias, and why the subtype changes the care
• ✓Telling delirium, dementia and depression apart
• ✓Responsive behavior: what the behavior is telling you
• ✓Antipsychotics, restraint and the harm of the easy answer
• ✓Why older people fall, and which causes are treatable
• ✓Falls prevention that works, and the things that only look like it
• ✓Immobility: the harm of the chair and the bed
• ✓Pressure injury: mechanism, staging, and the ones that are not pressure
• ✓Prevention: surfaces, repositioning, nutrition and what the evidence supports
• ✓Moisture, skin tears and the wound at the end of life
• ✓Pharmacology in an older body
• ✓Polypharmacy and the prescribing cascade
• ✓Deprescribing: stopping safely and knowing when
• ✓Pain, including in people who cannot tell you
• ✓Recognizing acute change when the observations are normal
• ✓Infection, asymptomatic bacteriuria and antibiotic stewardship
• ✓Transfer or treat in place: the hospital cascade
• ✓Weight loss, appetite and the decision about feeding
• ✓Dehydration and dysphagia
• ✓Continence: what is treatable and what catheters cost
• ✓Recognizing that someone is dying
• ✓Goals of care: the conversation as a clinical skill
• ✓Symptom management in the last days
• ✓After the death: family, staff and the institution
• ✓Autonomy, capacity and dignity of risk
• ✓Documentation, regulation and the assessment that drives everything
• ✓Staffing, delegation and recognizing when something is wrong

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