Geriatric Functional Assessment
"The Texas Tech Medcast is a podcast for medical residents, medical students, practicing physicians, and others involved in medical education and high quality, patient-centered primary care." "This episode gives an overview of the purposes of functional assessment of the elderly as well as tools for easy assessment in the office setting. Learning Objectives: the physician audience should be able to: Define the purpose of functional assessment of the elderly; List three questions that help...
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"The Texas Tech Medcast is a podcast for medical residents, medical students, practicing physicians, and others involved in medical education and high quality, patient-centered primary care." "This episode gives an overview of the purposes of functional assessment of the elderly as well as tools for easy assessment in the office setting.
Learning Objectives: the physician audience should be able to: Define the purpose of functional assessment of the elderly; List three questions that help assess healthy aging; Identify screening factors for vision, hearing, leg mobility, urinary incontinence, nutrition, memory, depression & physician disability; Use the Get-Up-And-Go test for mobility; and Conduct a simple functional assessment in an office setting.
There is also a FAct Sheet at: http://www.ttuhsc.edu/som/fammed/ttmedcast/PodcastEpisodeFS_GerFunctAssdoc.pdf
Material Type:
Presentation
Technical Format:
Podcast
Date Added to MERLOT:
April 11, 2009
Date Modified in MERLOT:
April 11, 2009
Authors:
Texas Tech Medical School
Texas Tech Medical School
Texas Tech Medical School
Submitter:
Cathy
Swift
Quality
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About
Primary Audience:
Graduate School,
Professional
Mobile Compatibility:
Not specified at this time
Language:
English
Cost Involved:
no
Source Code Available:
unsure
Accessiblity Information Available:
unsure
Copyright:
yes
Creative Commons:
no