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See It, Stop It, Prevent It: Key Concepts in Elder Abuse | May 20, 2024

Date of Presentation: May 20, 2024

Type: Past Presentation  

Audience: Clinical  Community  

Program: Community Health Representative ECHO Program  

Keywords: #chr  #community health representative  #elder abuse  

In this series of presentations, moderator LCDR Whitney Moseley, BSN, RN, Area CHR Consultant with the Oklahoma City Area Indian Health Service (IHS), welcomes speaker Bethany Reed, AGPCNP-BC, Adult Health & Geriatric Nurse Practitioner, Indian Health Service GeriScholar and Nurse Fellow, who serves the Salt River-Pima-Maricopa tribal community. Bethany discusses the different types of elder abuse, how to create profiles of elder abuse victims and abusers and why this topic is so important in tribal communities. She then examines various clinical presentations of elder abuse, and provides an overview of best practices for identifying and reporting elder abuse in a tribal a community. At the end of the session, participants will be able to:

  1. Identify the different types of elder abuse and create profiles of elder abuse victims and abusers and why this topic is so important in tribal communities.
  2. Examine various clinical presentations of elder abuse.
  3. Develop best practices for identifying and reporting elder abuse in a tribal a community.

To join the session, simply click here at the time of ECHO, May 20th @ 12pm PT: https://echo.zoom.us/j/85861655901?pwd=0em1G52lvvVpnihVPOoGwp1hDlPjpo.1

Please note recording will be made available shortly following the session.

Presented by:

Bethany Reed, AGPCNP-BC

Bethany Reed, AGPCNP-BC, LMT is a board certified Adult & Geriatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner with a breadth of experience, having completed her advanced nursing degree at Boston College and clinical rotations through the Dartmouth Medical system in New England.  With an undergraduate degree focused on transformational leadership and organizational development in healthcare systems, she currently serves as an Indian Health Service Geriatric Scholar and Indian Health Nurse Fellow.  Her clinical practice specializes in managing care for the senior patient, facilitating goals of care conversations for complex patients and the caregivers/families supporting them, diabetes education, and health/wellness coaching that integrates traditional healing practices. When not seeing patients in the clinic, efforts are spent as an educator on preventing and identifying elder abuse in tribal communities, navigating goal-aligned care with complex and aging tribal patients, or how to initiate and explore advance care planning and directives in tribal clinics. A frequently invited guest presenter at local and national health conferences, she is dedicated to improving personal experiences and health outcomes for Native American patients. Outside of work, Bethany can be found with her partner, who is a traditional Navajo silversmith, exploring farmer’s markets, pow wows, Native artisan markets and events, antique stores, or a good film at the local theatre.

 

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Date added: February 22, 2024