Hot Topics Medical Symposia

Hot Topics in Geriatrics

 

Thursday 14th - Friday 15th June 2007

The Conference Centre, Kensington Town Hall - LONDON, UK

 

 Hot Topics Medical Symposia

A two-day educational course for General Practitioners and Allied Health Professionals

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  Programme - Thursday 14th June 2007  
         
  09.00-09.45 Registration and Coffee    
  09.45-09.50 Chairman's Welcome Address Keith Hopcroft (Laindon)  
  09.50-10.20 Osteoporosis - managing fragile bones Ann Blackburn (London)  
  10.20-10.30 Discussion    
  10.30-11.00 Falls in the elderly:  managing in the ten minute consultation David Oliver (Reading)  
  11.00-11.10 Discussion    
  11.10-11.40 Coffee    
  11.40-12.10 Memory:  distinguishing normality from the onset of dementia Rafael Euba (London)  
  12.10-12.20 Discussion    
  12.20-12.50 Hypertension in elderly patients:  problems of diagnosis, management and understanding the research Stephen Jackson (London)  
  12.50-13.00 Discussion    
  13.00-14.00 Lunch    
  14.00-14.20 Secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease in the elderly:  what are the problems, the differences, when should it stop? Hugh McIntyre (St. Leonards-on-Sea)  
  14.20-14.30 Discussion    

 

14.30-15.10

Tricky cases:  Session 1

Keith Hopcroft (Laindon) and

Jeremy Playfer (Liverpool)

 
  15.10-15.40 Tea    

 

15.40-16.20

Tricky cases:  Session 2

Keith Hopcroft (Laindon) and

Jeremy Playfer (Liverpool)

 
  16.20 Summary and Close of Day    
         
  Programme - Friday 15th June 2007    
         
  09.00-09.45 Registration and Coffee    
  09.45-09.50 Chairman's Welcome Address Keith Hopcroft (Laindon)  
  09.50-10.20 Polypharmacy:  how and why to avoid it, how to deal with it, how to manage it if it's necessary Margot Gosney (Reading)  
  10.20-10.30 Discussion    
  10.30-10.50 The commonest movement disorders in general practice Jeremy Playfer (Liverpool)  
  10.50-11.00 Discussion    
  11.00-11.30 Coffee    
  11.30-12.00 Problems of patients in nursing homes Kevin Kelleher (London)  
  12.00-12.10 Discussion    
  12.10-12.30 Incontinence: the neglected giant of geriatrics Adrian Wagg (London)  
  12.30-12.40 Discussion    
  12.40-13.30 Lunch    
  13.30-14.00 Q & A Session

Keith Hopcroft (Laindon)

Kevin Kelleher (London)

Jeremy Playfer (Liverpool)

Adrian Wagg (London)

  
  14.00-14.20 Legal aspects of elderly care:  living wills, testamentary capacity, power of attorney, elderly abuse Gurcharan Rai (London)  
  14.20-14.30 Discussion    
  14.30-14.50 The elderly diabetic Juliet Wright (Brighton)  
  14.50-15.00 Discussion

 

    
  15.00 Tea and Close of Meeting    
         
 
  Please note that this programme may be subject to change without prior notification