Fall 2024听Lunch & Learn Webinar Sessions
听One Hours Sessions. All Live on Zoom
Womens' Health,听Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease and more to come!
听Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease听Assessment and Nursing Care听
Thursday,听November 14, 2024
12 noon - 1 pm ET, Live on Zoom
Contact Hours: 1.0, Rx Hours:听0.5听
Registration Fee: $34听
This course fulfills the Massachusetts Alzheimer鈥檚 Training
requirement (chapter 220, 2018)
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Older adults are becoming an increasingly larger percentage of the world population and are at risk for neurological decline.听needs.听This class focuses on differentiating Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) with a review of common triggers for associated behaviors, assessment instruments, including a new diagnostic tool, and effective treatments.听Stay updated, gain information regarding the complexity of overlapping health issues with the goal of increasing not only the life span but the "health span" of the older adult.听听
FACULTY
Patricia A. Tabloski, Ph.D., GNP-精东影业, FGSA, FAAN
Patricia A. Tabloski, Ph.D., GNP-精东影业, FGSA, FAAN is an associate professor at the Connell School of Nursing. Dr. Tabloski鈥檚 work focuses on the epidemiology and treatment of various threats to quality of life and function in older adults. This work has involved elucidating risk factors for poor outcomes, the development and testing of non-pharmacologic interventions to improve outcomes, and meta-analyses to determine the impact of specific nursing interventions. She has been a geriatric educator and clinician for over 35 years and has cared for many older adults in the acute and long-term care settings.Dr. Tabloski teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in gerontology, palliative and hospice care, and pharmacology. 听She works with undergraduate, masters and doctoral students pursuing specialty in care of the older adult. Dr. Tabloski was selected to serve as a faculty mentor and scholar at the John A. Hartford Foundation, Institute for Geriatric Nursing at New York University in June, 2002. 听Additionally, she was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, School of Nursing in Manchester, UK. She has lectured on gerontology in Budapest, Hungary and Zhejiang Province, China. 听She serves on review panels for top-tier nursing journals, is a grant application reviewer, and maintains certification as an advanced practice gerontological nurse practitioner through the American Nurses Credentialing Center. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau, the national honor society of nursing, and the American Geriatric Society, serving on the Professional Education Committee for three years. 听She was awarded fellowship in 2002 in the Gerontological Society of America and in 2010 in the American Academy of Nursing. Dr. Tabloski currently serves as an Adjunct Scientist with the Aging Brain Center, Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife..