Optimizing the Older Adult (16 hrs)

Become an older adult expert and expand your clientele reach! Course includes: stereotypes, levels of functional aging, theories of aging, chronic disease management, assessment, outcome measures, programming, falls prevention, agility and more!!

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Course curriculum

1. Welcome to Optimizing the Older Adult with Physiotherapists Tera Mezynski and Kerry Carlson
1. What is the Silver Tsunami?
2. Tera's 3 generations. Aging is Individualized
3. Everyone Ages Differently!
4. How Your Environment Can Affect Your Aging
5. How Stress, Social Support, Aging and Resources Can Affect Aging
1. The State of Public Health and Why We Need YOU Working Upstream!
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2. Continum of Care: At Home, Supported Housing, Assisted Living, Long Term Care
3. What's Currently Happening for Health Care with the Older Adult Population?
4. Fast Hospital Discharges and Limited Outpatient Physiotherapy
1. How It Helps If We Understand Aging: What Are the Components of Successful Aging?
2. Positive Aspects of Aging
3. Structural and Functional Consequences of Aging
1. This is one of my favorite clients. Would you believe Ethel is 103 years old. She often walks around without a mobility aid!
2. I just caught the tail end of her walk to her apartment....I couldn't keep up!
3. Understanding Frailty
1. The Impact of Sedentary Behaviour on Retirees and Why We Need Them to Move MORE Throughout the Day
2. Combating Sedentary Behaviour by More Movement
3. Use a Simple "Sitting Calculator" to Tabulate Time Spent Sitting During the Day for that "A-Ha" Awareness Moment
4. Sitting Disease, the Economic Impact, and the Association with Many Other Diseases
5. Science Behind Sitting Disease
6. Why We Need to Move Throughout Our Day! One workout and then sitting all day is not good!
7. NEAT (Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis)is pretty neat! NEAT is what stimulates your metabolic furnace!
8. More on Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis: Why it's good to be fidgety all day long!
1. Benefits of Moving with 84 year old Agnes
2. Benefits of Movement
3. Badminton on Your Driveway?
4. Early retiree Tom can't resist an outdoor gym on his daily run
5. Inspirational Older Adult, the World's Oldest Living Olympic Champion at 102 years old!
6. We are SO proud of 85 yr old Harold who used to only do chair classes and now he has progressed to hiking with poles! Look at him go!
7. Japanese People Have Been Doing a 6:00am Exercise Class at Temples since WWII called Radio Taiso. Everyone does it! The music is on the radio.
1. Our brains as we age and as we exercise.
2. How Exercise Helps the Older Adult Brain
3. What is Executive Function and does it matter? Apparently they don't teach this in grade 5...
4. Executive Functioning, Dual Task, and Improving Function in the Older Adult
1. Cardiovascular Stairs During a Heat Dome! (39 degrees C) What is my heart doing now to dissipate heat?
2. Cardiovascular Conditions
3. Here's an Active 61 year old on Cardiac Meds
4. Respiratory Function in the Older Adult
5. Exercise Induced Asthma
6. Common Respiratory Conditions
7. What is Osteoporosis?
8. Osteoporosis - stooped posture and exercise
9. A Deeper Dive Into Osteoporosis and Why Exercise is Important!
10. Osteoporosis and the Importance of the Hip Hinge (Remember to Also Avoid Twisting)!
11. Arthritis: Including Rheumatoid Arthritis, Psoriatic Arthritis, Ankylosing Spondylitis, Lupus and the BIG One: Osteoarthritis!
12. Fast Hospital Discharges After Total Hip and Knee Surgery!
13. Diabetes and Exercise
14. Diabetes and the Missing Slides!
15. A Deeper Dive Into Diabetes
16. Slides 11-19 Diabetes for those who are missing this section!
17. Common Neurological Conditions Faced by the Older Adult
18. Neurological Conditions: How to Get Exercising!
19. Cerebral Vascular Accident (CVA) Explained
20. What about aphasia?
21. Here is a Good 1 Page Stroke Infographic to Download!
22. Parkinson's, Multiple Sclerosis, Acquired Brain Injury, and Concussion
23. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
24. ALS, Bell's Palsy, and the Benefits of Exercise for Neurological Conditions
25. Cancer and Exercise
26. Cancer and the Benefits of Exercise
27. Research Article Raun Cancer and Exercise
28. Exercising Post-Breast Surgery
29. Mental Health and the Older Adult
30. Dementia and the Older Adult
31. Alzheimer's and Dementia... are they the same thing?
32. Dementia VS Aging and Why Exercise Matters!
33. Incontinence- Where are the Bathrooms on this Ferry?
34. Incontinence and the Older Adult
1. Barriers to Exercise
2. Overcoming Barriers
3. Goal Setting. Why do it?
4. Help Your Older Adults to Develop Smart Goals and Habits!
1. FALLS and the Older Adult!
2. Up from a fall
1. Welcome to exercise guidelines for older adults
2. What Are the Experts Telling Us About Exercise Guidelines for Older Adults?
1. Pre-Exercise Screening
2. Exercise Interview and Pre-Screening
3. Exercise Safety Tips
4. EASY Reference Article
5. Pre-Activity-Screening Exercise is Medicine
1. Outcome Measure for Assessing Frailty, Function, and Falls Risk
2. Outcome Measures: ABC Scale, Gait Speed, and Timed Up and Go (TUG)
3. Why the Timed Up and Go (TUG) Tells Us SO Much!
4. TUG, Cognitive TUG, 30 s Chair Stand, 40 m Fast-Paced Walk, and Key Executive Function Tests
1. Program Planning for Your Older Adult Clients
2. Program Planning for the Continuum of Older Adults
3. Program Planning Important Tips!
4. Hiking 1123km in your sixties can be done with Program Planning!
1. Posture Basics
2. Common Postural Problems
3. How Does Sitting Influence Our Posture?
4. Optimize Their Kinetic Chains: Overview of What to Strengthen and What to Stretch
5. Remember ROM of Major Joints!
6. Upper Extremity Range of Motion During a Beautiful Sunset!
7. Don't Forget Circumduction for Your Client's Shoulder: Combining All the Movements
8. What is Trendelenberg?
9. Trendelenberg Explained at a Beach!
1. Mobility Devices
2. Mobility Aids and Home Safety Equipment: How to Encourage Your Client to Use It!
3. 90 year old without cane or walking poles
4. Using a Cane
5. 90 Year Old Al Looks Much Better With Walking Poles!
6. 85 year old Ivan Was Reluctant But He FINALLY Started Using a Walker!
7. Benefits of Walking Poles with these Inspiring Folks in their Seventies of Have Hiked 1000s of KM from Mexico to Canada!
8. The Last Word on Poles by Patti: She Started Using Them when Crossing Creeks and Now Uses Them All the Time!
1. Balance and Agility in the Older Adult Population
2. 3 Balance Strategies to Teach Older Adults to Avoid Falling; Ankle, Hip, and Stepping Strategies
3. Static and Dynamic Balance, Agility, and Benefits of Dual Task Training
1. Functional Strength from Frail to Fit
2. Functional Strength for Frail Older Adults
3. Functional Exercise for Frail: In and Out of Bed
4. Functional Forest Fitness
5. Functional Fitness Exercise Examples for Older Adults
6. Ivan Stepping Up for Strength
7. Ivan Stepping Sideways
8. We Are Back in the Forest Doing Functional Fitness Again!
9. Upper Extremity Strengthening for Older Adults
10. Functional Upper Extremity Strengthening Exercises for Fit to Elite
11. Transverse Abdominals Heel Slide
12. Don't Forget the Pelvic Floor!
13. Transverse Abdominals Bent Knee Fall Out
14. Transverse Abdominals Simple Routine
15. Clam
16. How to Get Up from a Chair
17. Hip Hinge Squat
18. Hip Hinge at the Beach
19. Sit to Stand with Jump
20. Hip Stabilizers
21. One Leg Bridge
22. Plank
23. Side Plank
24. 4 point extension
25. Diagonal Patterns
26. Kinetic Lunging
27. Functional Exercise for Everyone: Up from Floor!
28. Getting Up from the Floor Trial 1
29. Up from Floor Trial 2
30. Squat Training Reseach Up from Chair
1. Cardiorespiratory Training and Aquatic Exercise for Older Adults
1. Functional for Life
2. Who Knows What They May Be Capable Of?
1. Connected Communities Are Best!
2. Social Isolation and Loneliness
3. Street Connections
4. National Institute on Aging Social Isolation Report
5. 72 year old who is cycling thousands of miles from Jasper, Canada to Mexico. Amazing what we are capable of!
1. Functional Dancing (Before a Webinar)! Bye from Kerry!
2. Bye from Tera! Keep those dancing shoes on all your life! Good luck optimizing those older adults!
3. You Did It! EMAIL us for your certificate.

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Optimizing the Older Adult (16 hrs)

Course curriculum

Welcome to Optimizing the Older Adult with Physiotherapists Tera Mezynski and Kerry Carlson

Chapter 1: The Silver Tsunami: Why It's Headed Your Way and What That Means!

Chapter 2: The Limitations of our Public Health System

Chapter 3: Understanding Aging

Chapter 4: The Frailty Factor with our Older Adults

Chapter 5: Impact of Sedentary Behaviour on the Health of Older Adults

Chapter 6: Benefits of Movement in the Older Adult

Chapter 7: Cognition, Exercise, and the Older Adult

Chapter 8: Chronic Diseases and Other Health Challenges in the Older Adult

Chapter 9: Overcoming Barriers to Exercise

Chapter 10: Falls Prevention and Why Does it Happen to Older Adults?

Chapter 11: Exercise Guidelines for the Older Adult

Chapter 12: Pre-Exercise Interview and Screening: If You Can Do It, It Helps!

Chapter 13: Outcome Measures and Why They Are Crucial!

Chapter 14: Program Planning: From Frail to Fit and Everyone in Between!

Chapter 15: Posture and Joint Stability

Chapter 16: Mobility Aids and Safe Mobilizing of Your Client

Chapter 17: Why is Balance and Agility So Important from Frail to Fit Individuals?

Chapter 18: Functional Movement Training for Older Adults: Think FUNCTION All the Time!

Chapter 19: Cardiovascular Training and Aquatic Exercise for Functional Gains

Functional for Life: From Frail to Fit!

Chapter 20: Conquering Loneliness: Social and Community Engagement

Chapter 21: YOU DID IT

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