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Noon
Geriatric Seminar Examines Heat-Related
Illnesses in the
Elderly
Did
you know that half of all heat-related
deaths during
the past 17 years were people 65 and
older? How to prevent and manage
heat
related illnesses in the elderly will be
discussed at a seminar for
health-care
professionals sponsored by the
Ohio
University College of
Osteopathic
Medicine
(OU-COM) July 19. The seminar will be held
at O'Bleness Memorial Hospital, Room No.
B-9, from noon to 1 p.m. Wayne Carlsen,
D.O., chairman of the Department of
Geriatric Medicine/Gerontology, will speak
on the subject. All health-care
professionals are invited to the program.
Lunch trays and brown bags are welcome.
Physicians, social workers, counselors and
nurses can receive one hour of continuing
education credit for attendance. For more
information call the Geriatric Education
Center at (740) 593-2258.
The
event is part of OU-COM's summer 1999
continuing education
series
on geriatric medicine and gerontology,
held on the first and third Mondays of
each month from noon to 1 p.m. at
O'Bleness Memorial Hospital,
Room
No. B-9. One seminar has been held and two
more are scheduled.
An
Aug. 2 seminar will focus on "Managing
Pain in the Geriatric Patient." The
speaker will be Tracy Marx, D.O. On Aug.
16, Allison Batchelor, M.D., will speak on
"Vitamins and Herbal Remedies."
For
more information, please read the
full
text of this press
release.
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