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PROS AND
CONS OF ASSISTED LIVING FOR THE ELDERLY DISCUSSED AT OU-COM
NOONTIME LECTURE
Note:
For more information, please contact Kevin Sanders,
writer/editor, at (740) 593-0896.
ATHENS,
Ohio -- Andrea Williams, long-term health-care administrator
at Lindley Inn, and Rick Davis, executive vice president of
Zandex Inc., will present the noontime seminar, "Assisted
Living: Welcome Resource for Elderly," Monday, Oct. 18.
Williams and Davis will discuss assisted living as a
resource for the elderly as well as reviewing a range of
issues that face the elderly who reside in assisted living
facilities.
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 Ohio
University College of Osteopathic
Medicine's
(OU-COM's) fall 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. The seminar is co-sponsored
by the Department of Geriatric Medicine/Gerontology, Western
Reserve Geriatric Education Center, OU-COM's Area Health
Education Center and the OU Counselor Education Program.
Continuing education credit can be arranged for attendance
at the program.
"The
seminars are designed for an interdisciplinary audience,"
said Suzanne Croci, OU-COM geriatric education coordinator.
"Health professionals from the community regularly attend,
in addition to interns, residents and medical students.
Members of the public are welcome as well, and the diversity
of disciplines represented by the participants makes for an
interesting exchange of ideas."
On Sept.
20, Jeff Palm, Ph.D., spoke on "Pharmacy Consideration in
Long-Term Care." On Oct. 4, Ken Glinter, D.O., spoke on
"Safety & Efficacy of HRT in the Post Menopausal Woman."
On Nov. 1, Mike Kellogg, Ph.D., will present "Music Therapy
and Medicine." Kurt Hoelrich, C.P.O., will speak on
"Prosthetics and Orthotics in Geriatrics," Nov. 15. "Update
on Cardiac Diagnostic Technology" will be presented by Randy
Purdy, D.O., on Dec. 6.
Croci said
the seminar series was started by a federal grant that
established OU-COM as a contributing site to the Western
Reserve Geriatric Education Center in September 1994.
Provided by the Department of Health and Human Services, the
grant supports educational programs in geriatrics and
gerontology for physicians, nurses, social workers,
counselors and other health-care providers to 22
Southeastern Ohio counties.
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