Geriatric medicine

Healthed
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This activity will focus on dementia prevention in primary care and will involve sending a link to a standardised questionnaire (CogDrisk) aimed at calculating a risk profile and identifying modifiable risk factors for dementia to all your patients between age 45-65, discussing the results with your patients and reporting on the outcomes in the report template provided.

Expert/s: Healthed
Prof Michael Woodward AM
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In this Product Explainer Geriatrician A/Prof Michael Woodward AM explains the evidence for Souvenaid, a medical food, to support memory and cognitive function in patients in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease (5 mins).

Prof Robin Daly
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In this Product Explainer Prof Robin Daly, Chair of Exercise & Ageing, Deakin University explains how a HMB enriched oral nutritional supplementation can help to protect muscle mass, strength, and function, and its potential role in the management of sarcopenia (5 mins).

Dr Desmond Graham
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Intervene and help prevent falls, fractures and many other factors that contribute to frailty- provide a practical, systematic approach to assessing at-risk patients and recommends where appropriate, interventions that are most likely to be effective.

Prof Michael Woodward AM
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Latest evidence-based recommendations on how people can preserve their cognitive function as they age, and slow the progression to dementia.

Prof Michael Saling
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Prof Michael Saling
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Vincent Carroll
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Recognising and managing the non-motor symptoms is an increasingly difficult challenge

Dr Stephanie Daly
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Dementia presents with quite variable signs and mimics many other conditions

Cathy Melton
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Parkinson's disease affects the patients not just neurologically, but socially, mentally and emotionally

Expert/s: Cathy Melton
Expert Panel Facilitated by Dr Terri Foran, Panelist: Dr Sonia Davison, Prof Rod Baber, and Dr Sara Whitburn
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The panel will attempt to provide a practical approach to treatment based on current available evidence but will also bring their own considerable personal and professional experience to the discussion.

Prof Michael Saling
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