Physician Resources: Aging, Mobility, and Hospitalization

In this CME, Drs. Scheunemann, Randhawa, and Scandrett discuss how to increase physician awareness of the significance of declining mobility as a predictor of poor outcome, identify reversible physiologic, inactivity, and environmental factors contributing to decreased mobility, engage the hospital-based interprofessional team to optimize inpatient mobility and maintenance of function, and describe strategies to improve outcomes for hospitalized older adults, including reducing length of stay, optimizing discharge location, and lowering 30 day readmission rates.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Increase physician awareness of the significance of declining mobility as a predictor of poor outcome.
  • Identify reversible physiologic, inactivity, and environmental factors contributing to decreased mobility.
  • Engage the hospital-based interprofessional team to optimize inpatient mobility and maintenance of function.
  • Describe strategies to improve outcomes for hospitalized older adults, including reducing length of stay, optimizing discharge location, and lowering 30?day readmission rates.
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 0.75 Attendance
Course opens: 
03/16/2026
Course expires: 
03/15/2029
Physician Resources
United States
  • Samender Singh Randhawa, MD,  - Geriatric Medicine
  • Leslie P. Scheunemann, MD, MPH  - Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine
  • Karen Scandrett, MD, MPH  - Associate Professor of Geriatrics; Director, Geriatric Fellowship Program

Disclosures:

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 companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Disclosures:

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 companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Accreditation Statement

Jointly Accredited Provider Mark

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.

The University of Pittsburgh designates enduring material activity for a maximum of 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit[s]™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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

  • 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 0.75 Attendance
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