Common Cognitive and Psychiatric Diseases in the Elderly and Related Legal Issues: An Overview

This course will provide an overview of the common presenting signs and symptoms, etiology, assessment, treatment and legal interventions, when needed, of cognitive and emotional disorders of aging including dementia, delirium, Alzheimer´s Disease, depression, generalized anxiety disorder and other related disorders. The course will be taught from an interdisciplinary perspective including nursing and law.

Instructors:

Assistant Professor Barbara Stephens, M.S.N., R.N., and Temple University College of Health Professions and Social Work Department of Nursing, Professor Frances Ward, Ph.D., R.N., CRNP, David R. Devereaux Chair, Temple University College of Health Professions and Social Work Department of Nursing, and Professor Ronald W. Costen, Ph.D., Esquire, attorney and social gerontologist, and Director of the Pennsylvania Institute on Protective Services, Temple University.

6 Continuing Education Hours

SOCIAL WORKERS:
This course has been approved for six (7) continuing education hours by Temple University, a pre-approved provider of continuing education by the PA State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Professional Counselors.