Sexual Intimacy and Decision Making Capacity in Patients With Dementia is the topic for this upcoming presentation. We’ll review New Jersey and Pennsylvania laws, current practices in nursing homes, and additional topics.
Below are the objectives for this Grand Rounds presentation:
– Review the New Jersey and Pennsylvania laws and how it applies to elder sexual abuse.
– Review current practices used in nursing homes to help determine capacity to consent to sexual activity.
– Discuss cultural influences of sexual issues in regards to aging patients in long-term care.
– Explore the ethical principles of intimate relationships in the elderly and institutionalized residents to engage in intimate relationships.
Topic: Sexual Intimacy and Decision Making Capacity in Patients With Dementia
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Dean’s Conference Room
E&R Building
Presenters:
Carla Rodgers, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
Jessica Abellard, MD
Fourth Year Psychiatry Resident
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
The learner objectives for these activities are to improve diagnostic skills, increase knowledge of all psychiatric disorders, and discuss recent advances in all areas of psychiatry, psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, and evaluative techniques.
The intended audience for these activities includes psychiatrists and psychologists. Other health care professionals including physicians from other disciplines, residents, medical students, nurses, therapists, and social workers may also participate.
The Cooper Health System is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The Cooper Health System takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this CME activity. The Cooper Health System designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM per session. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Successful completion of one hour of a continuing medical education (CME) course recognized by the American Medical Association, the American Osteopathic Association, or the American Podiatric Medical Association is equal to one hour of continuing education for New Jersey nursing license renewal (New Jersey Board of Nursing 13:37-5.3). All faculty participating in CME activities sponsored by The Cooper Health System are expected to disclose to the audience any real or apparent conflict of interest related to the content of their presentation. Full Disclosure Statements will remain on file in the Department of CME.
For more information or to be placed on the mailing list, please contact the CME Coordinator Viktoria Rile at 856.757.7853.
#