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GERIATRIC SEMINAR EXAMINES HEAT-RELATED ILLNESSES IN THE
ELDERLY
Note:
For more information, please contact Kevin Sanders,
writer/editor, at
(740) 593-0896.
ATHENS,
Ohio -- 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.
In
addition to the Department of Geriatric
Medicine/Gerontology, sponsors include the Ohio University
Counselor Education Program, the Western Reserve Geriatric
Education Center and the Area Health Education Center. 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." James Bové, D.O., discussed
"Diverticulitis in the Elderly" at a June 21 seminar.
"While
targeted at health-care professionals," says Croci,
"the programs
are designed to be interdisciplinary, and the diversity of
disciplines that the participants represent lead to an
interesting exchange of ideas."
Croci says
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 and has
supported many continuing education programs. 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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