Online Webinar 2019 - Thriving in Place Live Webinar

Overview
This training will help you understand the medico-legal risks and benefits of enabling seniors to remain at home with the aid of technologies such as remote patient monitoring, community paramedicine, and telehealth; with reliance upon architectural concepts such as universal design; and with implementation of real estate development based on principles of “new urbanism.”
Session Highlights
The growing need for long-term care.
The basic nuts-and-bolts of remote patient monitoring
The advantages and limitations of telehealth services to the home
The drive to provide community paramedicine
The fundamental principles of universal design
The features of new urbanism and its track record to date
The economics of shifting care away from healthcare facilities and into the home
Why one should attend the training
The US population is rapidly aging. With age often comes wisdom, but also chronic health problems and their attendant limitations on mobility, vision, and physiologic function generally. Age segregated, institutional long-term care is a multi-billion dollar industry aiming to help solve these problems, but its expense is becoming unsustainable, and its appeal to seniors is likely to decline further with aging of Baby Boomers. Such facilities will always be necessary, but their desirability will likely shrink as their affordability already has. Our society needs to develop fresh approaches, and “thriving in place” is one. That path is not a panacea, however, and it does not cure the illnesses afflicting so many older Americans. If we are to develop better methods to manage these problems, we must do so with full appreciation of both the risks and the benefits of the alternatives. This presentation will concentrate on the medicolegal issues framed by the growing trend of facilitating aging at home.
key learning objectives of the Topic
shortcomings of the nation’s existing approaches to the problems of aging;
options available;
risks and benefits of reliance upon healthcare services that can be furnished in and to the home;
risks and benefits of utilizing homes built to accommodate the changing physical capabilities of seniors as they age;
risks and benefits of developing communities emphasizing walking, interdependence, and sustainability; and
current trends that enhance the potential of successful thriving in place.
Who Will Benefit
Community developers and home builders
Managers and administrators of long-term care facilities
Hospital administrators
Leaders of ambulance companies and services
Remote patient management services
Nurses and physicians who care for older adults
Financial planners focused on seniors
Managers of REITs
Speaker
Joseph P. (“Joe”) McMenamin is a physician-attorney who has dealt with the problems of the elderly both clinically and legally for much of his 38-year career. Trained in internal medicine, most of his patients were seniors afflicted with a wide variety of the common, chronic problems typical of older Americans. As a lawyer, he has advised and defended nursing homes and CCRCs against claims of negligence and improper care. For the last quarter-century, and most especially since founding his own firm six years ago, his law practice has focused heavily on the law of telehealth, in which he is a nationally recognized expert. Three years ago, in collaboration with a highly experienced banker and real estate developer, Joe co-founded Civic Telehealth, which works to provide better access to care and to create an environment for graceful aging at home.