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Depression in the Elderly Outcome Improvement Activity

Depression in the Elderly Outcome Improvement Activity

This measuring outcome activity is accredited by the RACGP and ACRRM for 8.5 hours of measuring outcome hours.

This activity is a streamlined solution to simplify the government-mandated CPD requirements, meeting the outcome measurement obligation with clinically relevant and efficient learning.

Covering depression in the elderly, this course helps doctors review and refine their practice for better patient care. You'll create a quick, go-to checklist by combining best-practice resources, clinical experience, and course insights. The result is a concise, practical, and valuable clinical guide to enhance your daily practice.

You’ll track real improvements by comparing your patient management before and after applying your checklist to three (or more!) patient cases. Practical, measurable, and designed to enhance your expertise. 

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  • FLEXIBLE TIMING

  • 100% ONLINE

  • accredited Course

  • Expert instructor

This Outcome Improvement Activity will guide you to compare and measure your patient management prior to and after applying evidence-based guidelines to three patient cases. Guides, tools and templates are provided as you work through this activity.

This activity is designed to be flexible and enhance your clinical practice. You may complete more than three patient reports and keep the additional reports for your
records.

This activity relates to depression in the elderly and enables doctors to review and enhance their current practice for patients with this condition.

Learning journey

The steps for this activity are:

  1. Identify three patients in your practice
  2. Undertake a baseline measurement using the patient records.
  3. Activate a review/intervention using evidence-based guideline(s).
  4. Undertake another measurement after the review/intervention.
  5. Reflect on how your patient management may change as a result of this activity.
  1. Incorporate a quality improvement change in your own clinical management of patient cases.
  2. Document the process of initiating, planning, implementing, evaluating and reviewing patient case management.
  3. Generate safe, best practice solutions to patient cases.
  4. Measure your management of these patient cases prior to and after completing the activity.

All GPs looking to implement a measuring outcome activity.

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CPD Hours:

  • Education hours:  0.0
  • Reviewing performance hours: 0.0
  • Measuring outcome hours:  8.5
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Accreditations:

Royal Australian College of General Practice (RACGP) #809620

Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) #32986

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Format:

  • 100% online resources

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Study duration:

  • 8.5 hours CPD Activity

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Depression in the elderly

If you need more information relating to diagnosing and treating depression in the elderly, HealthCert Education offers this short online course.

Click here to learn more about this course.

This course begins with an overview of depression and the increasing higher levels of psychological distress for older people. The content includes information on understanding depression, depression categories and how the medical profession defines depression. It then moves to the causes of depression, risk factors for the elderly, and other causal factors including at-risk groups. The effects of depression and how they may be displayed are mentioned, then considers diagnostic information, screening and assessment tools. Assessing suicide risk, differential considerations and investigations are outlined. The GP Mental health Care Plan and treatment approach includes education, lifestyle changes, psychological and medication considerations. The course concludes with two clinical case studies.