Description:
Description:This course is designed to explore the practitioner's role when working with end of life geriatric patients. Geriatric patients and families at times require the practitioner to learn and utilize a different set of skills. Many practitioners fall into the trap of thinking they can care for all types and ages of patients without gaining further knowledge. Issues such as attitude, knowledge and assessment will be explored. Fears of the end of life geriatric patient will also be explored and then described in terms of what may make a better death for the patient and family. Finally, this course will challenge the practitioner to consider their current skill level in caring for the geriatric patient.

Objectives:

• Participant will Learn the attitudes, knowledge, and skill required to provide quality of life for geriatric patients at the end of life.
• Participant will Recognize the key concepts of quality of life and identify ways clinicians should use this information in decision making.

*** Hospice Education Network is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Massachusetts Association of Registered Nurses, Inc., an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

**** Hospice Education Network, provider #1182, is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) www.aswb.org, through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Hospice Education Network maintains responsibility for the program.

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