UCLA Geriatrics Mini-Series: The Core Five

Description

The Geriatrics Mini-Series: The Core Five offers busy clinicians a focused, high-yield review of the conditions that most often affect function, independence, and long-term outcomes in older adults. Designed for practical use in everyday practice, these ACCME-accredited modules deliver concise, evidence-based strategies you can apply immediately at the point of care. Earn 2.75 CME credits while strengthening your approach to some of the most common and challenging geriatric syndromes.

This focused mini-series delivers five high-impact modules:

• Cognitive Dysfunction Across the Spectrum: Clear guidance on recognizing early cognitive decline, differentiating etiologies, communicating with patients and caregivers, and implementing management plans across all stages of impairment.

• Late-Life Depression: Identification & Clinical Management: Practical screening tools, diagnostic considerations, and treatment strategies for managing depression in older adults—a condition frequently missed, under-recognized, or complicated by medical comorbidities.

• Falls: Prevention, Risk Reduction & Management:High-yield strategies to assess fall risk, implement preventive interventions, and coordinate multidisciplinary management to reduce injury, hospitalization, and loss of independence.

• Hearing Loss & Communication Barriers: A practical approach to identifying hearing impairment, improving communication, reducing medical misunderstanding, and supporting patient safety through appropriate screening and intervention.

• Urinary Incontinence: Evaluation & Tailored Treatment: A focused review of common presentations, effective assessment methods, and evidence-based treatment options that restore dignity, function, and quality of life for older adults.