Ageless Wisdom (Non-Train the Trainer)- 4/27/2022

April 27, 2022

Ageless Wisdom is an interactive and experiential geriatric sensitivity training program offering a wide array of audiences including health care professionals, health care students, caregivers, employees from a variety of organizations, and other community members.

The program consists of the following segments: sensory changes, changes in cognition, psychological changes, functional changes, social changes, diversity and aging, and myths about again.

Target Audience

Nurses

Social workers

Learning Objectives

1. Identify and experience normal changes as we age

2. Identify and experience changes as a result of disease and disability associated with the aging process

3. Discuss golden rules that outline strategies to manage the changes

4. Help the audience to view aging as a positive experience

Additional Information

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 3.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 3.00 ASWB
  • 3.00 Attendance
Course opens: 
04/07/2022
Course expires: 
06/10/2022
Event starts: 
04/27/2022 - 9:00am EDT
Event ends: 
04/27/2022 - 12:00pm EDT
Cost:
$1.00
Teams Meeting
Pittsburgh, PA
United States

Ronnie Edwards MSW, LSW

Aging Coordinator

Education and Consultative Services of UPMC Senior Services

Conflict of Interest Disclosure:  No members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services, used on, or consumed by, patients to disclose.

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 3.0 continuing education credits.

Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 3.0 contact hours.

Social Work (ASWB)

This program is offered for 3.0 hours of social work continuing education.

Other Health Care Professionals

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Available Credit

  • 3.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 3.00 ASWB
  • 3.00 Attendance

Price

Cost:
$1.00
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Microsoft Teams