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NSU to host Interprofessional Geriatrics Training Institute, Event begins Feb. 15
Nova Southeastern University’s Florida Coastal Geriatric Resources, Education, and Training Center (GREAT GEC) will host the 6th Annual Interprofessional Geriatrics Training Institute on Feb. 15 and 16.
Held at NSU’s Lifelong Learning Institute classroom located at University Park Plaza, the training institute will offer a high-quality scientific program of invited speakers, a busy exhibition, and well-attended poster presentations. Between 100 to 200 delegates, many of whom will be key international opinion leaders in the field, are expected to attend. Experts from the United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Lithuania and Hungary are invited speakers.
This training institute is designed to present topics in geriatrics and eldercare important in long term or community setting for patients, with a special focus on inter-professional practice. It reinforces working amongst other professions and strategizing ways to improve and coordinate care. Elders present multi-professional challenges to the health care system; they have a spectrum of medical, functional and psychosocial problems that involve complex medical and community care. Geriatricians and health care workers in the long term care setting have always advocated addressing the whole patient and not just the illness. Addressing the whole patient demands a need for many disciplines. One of the challenges is better coordinating care between the professionals. We believe that better coordinated care will further lead to decreased hospitalizations and re-hospitalizations as well as maintenance of functioning elders in the community.
The training institute is opened to the public and free for NSU students. For registration information, please call Connie Sokolowski at 954-262-1638. NSU faculty, please check with Ms. Sokolowski for the rates. For more information, please visit: http://www.nova.edu/gec/igs13/invitation.html