Mary Flett – The Aging Client: Adapting Your Practice to Meet the Silver Tsunami

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Faculty:
Mary Flett
Duration:
5 Hours 40 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Jan 10, 2017

Description

Manual (6.26 MB) 88 Pages Available after Purchase

Outline

TREATING THE OLDER ADULT

  • In-patient & outpatient settings
  • Acute & sub-acute settings
  • What is the Patient-Centered Medical Home & why should you care?

NAVIGATING SYSTEMS OF CARE

  • Are you a specialist or a generalist?
  • Assessing and accessing resources in your community
  • Assessing the capacity of your patient and his/her family for managing care needs

CAPACITY & COMPETENCY EVALUATION

  • Is it delirium, dementia, or depression?
  • Anxiety and its impact on performance
  • Medication-induced cognitive impairment
  • What is “informed consent” in the cognitively impaired older adult?

TOOLS

  • Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)
  • WHODAS 2.0
  • Level-1 Symptom Inventory
  • Clinician-rated symptoms of psychosis
  • Adler Adult ADHD
  • Global Deterioration Scale

FAMILY INTERVENTIONS & END OF LIFE PLANNING

  • The POLST
  • POA for healthcare
  • Assisted suicide
  • Five questions for eliciting quality of care in end of life
  • Working with family members who may be resistant to desires of client

COORDINATION OF CARE

  • Who is in charge? Where does behavioral health fit within continuum of care?
  • Communicating with treatment providers
  • Getting them to communicate with you!
  • HIPAA & other limitations of sharing information

DOCUMENTATION

  • Difference between “medical necessity” and “clinically significant functional impairment”
  • Medicare documentation standards for in-patient and out-patient settings
  • Maximizing reimbursement

ETHICAL & LEGAL ISSUES

  • Medicare/Medicaid billing
  • Confidentiality issues

Faculty

Mary Flett Related seminars and products: 1

Mary Flett, Ph.D., has been a sought-after teacher and trainer for over 30 years. She is a licensed clinical psychologist who focuses her practice on aging issues and behavioral rehabilitation, partnering with medical professionals, integrative medicine practitioners, and complementary healing providers. Dr. Flett has worked in private practice, community-based agencies, and has provided services in both state and county government behavioral health systems.

In addition to her clinical work across the developmental spectrum, Dr. Flett has conducted evaluation and outcomes analyses and quality improvement studies for county and state government. She has taught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and was formerly affiliated with the Master’s in Counseling Program at Sonoma State University in California. Dr. Flett is the author of Mastering the DSM-5®: Integrating New & Essential Measures Into Your Practice (PESI, 2014).

Prior to becoming a psychologist, Dr. Flett spent 10 years working as a legal assistant in the areas of family law, criminal law, probate and tax law, and public law. Dr. Flett studied improvisation at the famed Second City in Chicago and performed stand-up comedy. She has a remarkable wit and ability to present information in a lively and engaging way.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Mary Flett is in private practice. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Nonfinancial: Mary Flett has no relevant nonfinancial relationship to disclose.

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