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Sessions of the continuing medical education event include:

• Delirium in Older Persons: Advancing Practice through Research
• Vulnerable Elders at the Time of Transitions in Care
• Using the Electric Medical Record to Improve Care of Hospitalized Seniors
• Practical Steps to Improve "Transitions in Care" at your Hospital
• The Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP) - Improving Acute Care of the Elderly Population
• In Hospital Falls - Which Strategies Can the Interdisciplinary Team Use to Help Older Adults?
• Holding a Family Meeting and Defining the Patient's Goals
• Lessons Learned on Improving Patient Satisfaction of Hospitalized Seniors
• Why Would Seniors Come to You?
  

There will also be a reception on Thursday, July 16, featuring event speakers Sharon K. Inouye, M.D., M.P.H.; Eric Coleman, M.D., and attorney Robert W. Roth, board chairman of the Wisconsin Masonic Home, Inc., Three Pillars Senior Living Communities at Dousman, Wis. The reception will take place at the Humphrey Scottish Rite Masonic Center, 790 N. Van Buren Street, Milwaukee.

Dr. Inouye is a Harvard Medical School professor at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center as well as director of the Aging Brain Center at the Institute for Aging Research.

Dr. Coleman is a professor of medicine in the division of health care, research and geriatric medicine at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center as well as the director of the Care Transitions Program.

Roth is speaking on behalf of the community about the deep impact the Acute Care for the Elderly program has had on Three Pillars.

"Something as simple as making sure an elderly patient's electrolytes are stable can mean the difference between this
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