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While effective communication should be a focus of home medical equipment specialists with all ages of patients, special attention should be paid to working with older adults as an increase in age can bring about medical conditions that may require more patience and an adjustment in how one provides and receives medical information. This course includes tips on how to better facilitate communication with older adult populations.

This course provides some effective approaches to selling to an ever-growing market of Americans: seniors, those 60 years of age and older.

This course provides an overview of how aging affects memory.

This course is the first in a series of courses that examines the aging process and its effects on the human body.

This course reviews the effects, causes and treatment options of sleep disorders among the elderly population.

This course provides an overview of ethnogeriatrics which is the influence of ethnicity and culture on the health and well-being of older adults.

Unique challenges can arise when performing perioperative care for older surgical patients. This course reviews the challenges of performing such care that all members of a patient’s health care team should be aware.

This course will explain how the aging process contributes to chronic kidney disease.

This course provides an overview of the causes and risk factors, signs and symptoms, and diagnosis and treatment of depression in the elderly population.