Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:
1. Identify factors (environmental, physical, medical) that could potentially cause agitation in patients with dementia
2. Formulate strategies (environmental, physical, social, pharmaceutical) that could potentially eliminate triggers and examine benefits of theses applied methods and recourses (behavioral
    logs, habilitation therapy)
3. Examine risks of drug treatment when it is necessary to use them

Faculty

SARA FRIEDMAN, NP
Adult Geriatric Primary Care

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 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.