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Virtual meeting

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Description

This training will focus on substance use disorders in older adults. Participants will understand the risk factors associated with substance use and overdose among older adult populations, followed by a discussion on the specific overdose interventions for an aging demographic.

The Overdose Prevention Series is a 4-part series for healthcare professionals to recognize the risk factors for overdose, as well as interventions for preventing and respond to overdose. The interdisciplinary health-care team will identify methods for implementing treatment interventions addressing the grief, loss, and trauma associated with surviving a personal overdose or death of a loved one. Further, participants will analyze the guilt often experienced by overdose survivors and the complex emotions of grief and loss experienced by healthcare providers, co-workers and loved ones who care for someone who has succumbed to overdose death.This series will discuss risk factors for overdose among medically underrepresented communities, such as with older adults and other medically complex patients, who require thoughtful interventions due to a variety of unique socio-economic variables.

Participants who complete the evaluation within 2 weeks of training completion may access their certificate of training completion and requested CEU certificate.

Intended audience

Medical providers, nurses, social workers, Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselors (LADC), Certified Alcohol/Drug Counselors (CADC), Community Health Workers (CHW), recovery coaches, counselors, Licensed Mental health Counselors (LMHC), and members of the community.

Speakers

Rossana Lau-Ng, MD, MBA, CMD

Rossana Lau-Ng is an attending provider in geriatrics at Boston Medical Center (BMC) who sees patients in skilled nursing facilities and provides care for both sub acute rehabilitation patients and long-term care residents. She is also the medical director for BMC’s nursing home program and decanter program, the latter of which focuses on care transitions for un- and under-insured patients from the hospital to post-acute care facilities. Rossana is an assistant professor of medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and a core faculty member of the school’s Geriatric Medicine Fellowship. Rossana is a recipient of the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Geriatric Academic Career Advancement Award, which supports her research on interprofessional education for providers in post-acute and long-term care settings working with older adults with opioid use disorder.

Objectives

Following this training, participants will have the knowledge necessary to:

• Recognize the prevalence of substance use disorder in older adults, including initiation of use at older age.
• Recall at least 2 risk factors for overdose that are specific to the older adult population
• Identify at least 3 interventions, specific to aging and medically complex patients, to prevent overdose

Sponsored by

Boston Medical Center Grayken Center for Addiction TTA, Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Addiction Services (DPH/BSAS)

Funding for out of state attendees is provided by the Opioid Response Network (ORN).

Funding for this initiative was made possible (in part) by grant no. 1H79TI083343 from SAMHSA. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

Accreditation information

In support of improving patient care, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 1.00 general continuing education credit.

Boston Medical Center is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Association Massachusetts, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Participants who complete and return the evaluation and stay for the entire session will be awarded 1.00 contact hour.

BMC Grayken Center of Addiction TTA has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7188. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. BMC Grayken Center of Addiction TTA is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. For this program, 1.00 contact hour will be offered to participants who attend the training and complete the evaluation. 

Grayken Center for Addiction TTA is approved to offer LADC/CADC's and recovery coaches who complete this course 1.00 general continuing education credit.

Continuing education (CE) requirements vary by license and jurisdiction. When requesting continuing education credits, please ensure you are following the rules and regulations determined by the board regulating your license. Boston Medical Center Grayken Center for Addiction TTA does not oversee adherence to licensing requirements and regulations. 

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