Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:

1. Discuss manifestations of ageism in our current healthcare system and its consequences for older adults seeking medical care
2. List tools and strategies for preventing and managing delirium in hospitalized older adults
3. Discuss ACE gold standards and the 4M framework and how they work to create an “Age-Friendly” health care system

Maryam Hasan, MD

Medical Director, Acute Care for Elders (ACE) unit

Assistant Professor of Medicine, UMMS- Bay state

Attending Physician, Division of Geriatrics, Palliative Care and Post Acute Medicine

Megan Carr, PharmD, BCPS, BCGP

_{Geriatric Clinical Pharmacy Specialist}

_{Acute Care for the Elderly (ACE) Unit Pharmacist}

Faculty Disclosure

The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education ( CE ) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options.  Faculty or planner conflicts of interest are resolved before the educational activity.       

None of the other members of the faculty and planning committee for this educational event have commercial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods and services consumed by or used on patients.