MSH/ UHN: Medical Grand Rounds: Rethinking the Traditional Model: An Evidence-Based Case for Reforming Hospital Care for Older Adults

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

Mount Sinai Hospital

Auditorium, 18th Floor

Videoconferenced to:

Toronto General Hospital – Eaton Wing Ground Floor, Room #025/026

Toronto Western Hospital – Main Auditorium, 2 West Wing, Room #401

“Rethinking the Traditional Model:

An Evidence-Based Case for Reforming

Hospital Care for Older Adults

Erickson/Reynolds Fellow in Clinical Geriatrics, Education, and Leadership
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Research Affiliate, Oxford Institute of Ageing
University of Oxford

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1. Demonstrate how current paradigms of hospital care are problematic.
2. Establish the need for an elder friendly approach.
3. Introduce the Acute Care for Elders (ACE) Strategy as an ideal care delivery model and the evidence that supports it.

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“This event is an accredited group learning activity as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada”