Age Friendly Healthcare involves using evidence-based practice and awareness of older adult’s health care based on the framework of Geriatric 4Ms: What Matters, Mentation, Medication and Mobility. This half day symposium will host regional experts who will discuss incorporation of each of the 4Ms in patient care specific for American Indian populations over zoom webinar.

Objectives of the symposium are:

1. Describe how to transform clinical operations into Age-Friendly healthcare
2. Reliably apply Geriatric 4M assessments ​
3. Implement action plans for Geriatric syndromes

This FREE activity will provide up to 4 Educational credits to providers, healthcare professionals and community workers.

Outline of the conference:

8 - 9 a.m. | What Matters to American Indian Elders
Tami Jollie-Trottier, PhD, Indigenized Behavioral Healing

 9:15-10:15 a.m. | Training providers to educate caregivers of native elders with dementia 
Jordan P. Lewis, PhD, MSW, Associate Director, Memory Keepers Medical Discovery Team - Health Equity, Professor, Department of Family Medicine & Biobehavioral Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth campus 

10.30–11:30 a.m. | Update on Antivirals for COVID
Monica Mayer, MD, Council Women and Physician, Quentin N Burdick Memorial Hospital  

11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. | Gait and Mobility Disturbances in Dementia
Blythe S. Winchester, MD, MPH, CMD, AGSF, Director of Geriatrics Services, Cherokee Indian Hospital, Certified Medical Director, Tsali Care Center, Chief Clinical Consultant, Geriatrics and Palliative Care, Indian Health Service

Register here. (FREE)