Name: Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience – Geriatric Grand Rounds
Start: 2025-12-08T12:30:00-10:00
End: 2025-12-08T13:30:00-10:00
Location: Zoom

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November 20th, 2025 from 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Care Home ECHO Mentation (Mind) Series

This one hour Care Home ECHO session covers topics essential for care home and foster home operators. Topics include the 4Ms of geriatrics: What Matters, Medication, Mentation (or Mind) and Mobility which are based on evidence-based practices that support healthy aging.

This Mind or Mentation series, will feature:

10/16/25 – Tony Vericella with Alzheimer’s Caregiving and The Caregivers will share about the Caregiver Kit.
11/20/25 – Gina Fujikami, MD, will share about the Alzheimer’s Association – Partners in Care and Support.
12/18/25 – Qi Zhi, DNP, MPH, FNP-BC will share about newer drug therapies for Alzheimer’s disease.

Target Audience: Care Home Operators, Care Home Staff, Nurses, Allied Health Professionals, Social Workers, Foster Home Operators, Case Managers, Service Coordinators

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Host: UH JABSOM Geriatrice Workforce Enhancement Program Care Home ECHO

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Email: fernandes.ritabelle@gmail.com

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December 1st, 2025 from 7:00 am - 8:15 am

Growing Older with Lifelong Intellectual Disabilities: When Dementia is Suspected or Diagnosed – Wrap-Up Session

This Project ECHO series is a free, practical, case-based education program for health care and human service providers who want to enhance their knowledge, competence, and performance related to the care of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities affected by dementia. Each ECHO session will include a short presentation by a topic expert, followed by a case study submitted in advance by an ECHO participant site, and then open discussion to learn from one another. The NTG and URI/VCU GWEPs will be holding their 11th series of ECHO programs on topics related to intellectual disability and dementia. The theme for the Fall 2025 Series is Post-Diagnostic Supports.

INTERPROFESSIONAL HUB TEAM OF EXPERTS: Gerontologist Kathleen Bishop, PhD, Administrator Ashara Edwards, MS, Psychologist Matthew P. Janicki, PhD, Nutritionist Catherine Conway, MS, RDN, CDN, CDCES, Neurologist Seth M. Keller, MD, Gerontologist Phillip Clark, ScD, Gerontologist Edward Ansello, PhD, Nurse Practitioner Kathy Service, RN, MS, FNP-BC, CDDN

Host: National Task Group on Intellectual Disabilities and Dementia Practices

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rigec@etal.uri.edu

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December 3rd, 2025 from 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Transform end-of-life care with deep listening

Discover evidence-based counseling techniques that help social workers, chaplains, and care teams manage trauma, de-escalate crisis moments, and bring calm to high-stress hospice and palliative settings. Join Gary Gardia for a powerful 90-minute webinar merging mindfulness, compassion, and clinical skills to strengthen patient and family support.

AFTER THIS WEBINAR YOU’LL BE ABLE TO:

Define counseling in end-of-life care
Explain mindfulness and deep listening frameworks
Identify two mindfulness techniques for de-escalation
Recognize two high-risk situations requiring both interventions
Describe two scenarios applying these techniques to traumatic stress

Host: Kokua Mau

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Virtual

Email: jkoijane@kokuamau.org

Phone: (808) 585-9977

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December 8th, 2025 from 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience – Geriatric Grand Rounds

Susan C. Price, MD, is the Chief of the Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Care at Hawai’i Pacific Health and the Medical Director of the Straub Benioff GUIDE Program. Dr. Price will be teaching the Department of Geriatric Medicine Grand Rounds on Monday, December 8, 2025 from 12:30-1:30pm (HST).

At the end of this session, physicians will be able to:

Understand the GUIDE program background, goals and components.
Describe GUIDE eligibility and referral process.

Intended Audiences: Physicians, nurses, and other allied health staff caring for geriatric patients.

Host: University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine

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Zoom

GWEP Coordinator: Sai Rompicharla at rom489@hawaii.edu

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