Target Audience
This activity was developed for physicians including Eisenhower medical staff along with nurses and ancillary staff.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be better able to:
- Recognize polypharmacy and identify common problems seen in medication use in older adults.
- Review age-associated changes in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.
- Describe common adverse drug effects and drug-disease interactions in older adults.
Faculty
Sonja L. Rosen, MD, FACP Section Chief, Geriatric Medicine,
Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Medical Director, Geriatrics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Network
Professor of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai, Department of Medicine
Professor of Clinical Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles, California
Accreditation
The Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower is accredited by the Accreditation
Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for
physicians.
The Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower designates
this live activity for a maximum of
1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation
in the activity.
Provider is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #13664, for 1 contact hour.
To receive credit for education contact hours outside of the state of California, please check with your state board of registered nursing for reciprocity.
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It is the policy of the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences to ensure fair balance,
independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all programming. All individuals with the
potential to impact the content of an accredited education activity are expected to identify and
reference off-label product use and disclose relationships with ACCME-defined ineligible
companies.
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planners, managers, and other individuals who are in a position to control the content of CE
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and patient care recommendations. The Annenberg Center is committed to providing its learners
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In accordance with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education Standards, parallel
documents from other accrediting bodies, and Annenberg Center for Health Sciences policy, the
following disclosures have been made:
Disclosures
Sonja L. Rosen, MD, FACP Dr. Rosen has no relevant commercial interests or relationships to report. Dr. Rosen does not intend to reference unlabeled/unapproved uses of drugs or products in this presentation.
The faculty for this live activity has disclosed that there will be
no
discussion about the use of products for non-FDA approved applications.
All other individuals in a position to control the content of this CE activity have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.
All of the financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.
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necessarily reflect the views of the Annenberg Center and/or its agents. As in all educational
activities, we encourage practitioners to use their own judgment in treating and addressing the
needs of each individual patient, taking into account that patient's unique clinical situation.
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that may arise from participating in this activity or following treatment recommendations
presented.
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