Geriatric Certificate Series

Senior Healthcare is a multi-billion-dollar industry with constantly rising costs. In order to help control expenditure, the federal government is making ongoing changes to regulatory processes of health care entities. This includes managed care organizations, Bundle Payments for Care Improvement and other similar programs that were designed to ensure the efficacy and accountability of healthcare service delivery. Therefore, therapists who work in geriatric settings are now held to even higher standards to ensure that services are medically necessary through treatment interventions and skilleddocumentation.

This innovative workshop provides a contemporary approach to therapy service provision that will help to maximize outcomes in any geriatric setting without fancy equipment. Attendees will also learn how to communicate these outcomes by composing individualized, holistic treatment plans, setting realistic,functional goals, and writing dailyand weekly progress reports that will demonstrate medical necessity and prevent denials.

• Practical application of Medicare guidelines for documentation and treatment to meet medical necessity and justify the need for skilled services
• Create customized treatment plans addressing patient's unique underlying impairments that contribute to functional deficits
• Interactive format with coaching from a documentation expert with experience in denial appeal writing; real world examples of documentation do's and don'ts and group practice to improve your documentation the next day
• Effective treatment strategies that help patients meet goals faster to meet the demands of shorter managed care coverage periods
• Free, easy to use apps, standardized assessment tools and websites to take your treatment to the next level that you can download and use immediately
• Understand the Bundle Program and other forms of consolidated billing to improve your accuracy and avoiddenials
• Strategies for increasing productivity and efficiency during treatment without compromising quality

The CDC, government programs, and major medical systems believe that fall risk is a growing epidemic with more than one third of adults over 65 years old falling annually and 30% of those people suffering moderate to severe injuries. In 2012, the total cost for fall related injuries in older adults alone was 30 billion dollars. Integrative fall prevention strategies are multidimensional, simultaneously addressing multiple fall risk factors and leading to more effective, cost-reducing, and sustainable patient outcomes. Over 127 million Americans seek complementary and integrative health care services annually and the most successful clinicians know that meeting this growing need offers a huge advantage in providing superior quality care.

Integrative rehabilitation professionals realize that thebody and mind function inseparably in all human activity. This insightful and innovative program will transform traditional fallprevention thinking into a more holistic concept of care by outlining a simple set of integrative rehabilitation principles. Throughout the day, participants will practice researchsupported integrative movement and manual strategies that can be immediately applied in diverse clinical settingsresulting in lower cost and highly effective balance enhancement outcomes.

• Immediately apply integrative thought, movement, and manual strategies that prevent falls in diverse clinical settings
• Master the four pillars of integrative neuromuscular balance
• Experience hands-on movement labs throughout the day to stimulate natural balance mechanisms
• Quickly employ simple and effective rehabilitative Tai Chi movements into practice
• The secrets to successful, sustainable, and cost saving home exercise programs that prevent falls and re- hospitalization
• Become a more mindful and perceptive rehabilitation professional

The latest practice analysis identifies over 53% of rehabilitation patients are over the age of 65 years. Many of these older adults have functional limitations due to the fact that older adults are generally less physically active than theiryounger counterparts or due to difficulties returning to normal function following illness or injury. Exercise is a non- pharmacological intervention that can have beneficial effects on multiple domains of function. However, the application of exercise by health care professionals is often under-dosed leading to minimal changes in this patient population. Olderadults can pose unique challenges for clinicians due to their sedentary lifestyle and potential for complex medical history.

Rehabilitation professionals are experts in movementscience and should play an integral role in prescription of appropriate physical activity to ensure maximal levels of success with older adults, so we need to do better for this new majority of patients. This course will provide you with a better understanding of primary aging processes that may affect an older adult's functional status. An evidence-basedapproach for exercise prescription will be discussed to ensure that exercise science principles are used during plan of care development.

• Practical application of exercise prescription in older adults that you can use the next day
• Effective, evidence-based interventions to ensure positive outcomes in older adults

Sarcopenia (muscular atrophy related to aging and sedentary lifestyle) is one of the most common geriatric syndromes compromising the function of up to 40% of theaging population. Sarcopenia contributes to decreased gait speed, reduced grip strength, increased fall risk, and functional decline. This muscular dysfunction is best treated through the prescription of progressive resistance exercise.The individuals best positioned in the health care system totreat this health issue are rehabilitation professionals, especially those who are encountering these individuals while managing injury, illness, or long-term declines in function.

This webinar will improve your understanding of how to prescribe strength training for the geriatric patient. Participants will learn how to immediately apply these strategies to improve functional tasks like stair negotiation, walking endurance, bed mobility, and transfers. Differences in types of strength prescription and types of strength exercises will be defined to help understand the application in rehabilitation. Attendees will be able to immediately take this information and apply it in their existing rehabilitation programs to improve the outcomes for their patients.

• Accurately prescribe strength training for your geriatric patients
• Functional exercise for strength vs. exercise to build strength levels