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2009 AGS Program Committee encourages Program Proposals that help the Society fulfill its Mission and Goals for Continuing Education. The following is a list of topics that the Professional Education Executive Committee (the group that oversees the Society's continuing education program) has determined are of interest to clinicians, educators, and researchers who work with older adults:
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| General Principles of Aging |
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(demography of aging, biology of aging, psychosocial aspects of aging, pharmacology, legal and ethical issues, health care finance, and CPT coding issues) |
| Approach to the Older Patient |
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(hospital-based and community-based geriatric care, nursing home care, geriatric assessment, preventive geriatrics, physical activity, rehabilitation, palliative care, and complementary and alternative medicine) |
| Geriatric Syndromes |
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(dementia, delirium, urinary incontinence, hearing and vision impairment, malnutrition, eating and feeding problems, osteoporosis and osteomalacia, falls and gait disturbances, dizziness and syncope, pressure ulcers, sleep disorders, and elder mistreatment)
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| Geriatric Psychiatry |
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(depression and other mood disorders, anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders, personality/somatoform disorders, substance abuse, and mental retardation) |
| Common Geriatric Diseases, Disorders, and Health Care Concerns |
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(cardiovascular diseases/disorders, hypertension, musculoskeletal diseases/disorders, back pain,
diseases/disorders of the foot, neurologic diseases/disorders, infectious diseases, respiratory diseases/disorders, oral diseases/disorders, gastrointestinal diseases/disorders, endocrine/metabolic disorders, diabetes, hormone replacement therapy, gynecologic diseases/disorders, disorders of sexual function, hematologic diseases/disorders, oncology, renal diseases/disorders, prostate disease, dermatologic diseases/disorders)
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Useful Words for Developing Learning/Behavioral Objectives for Multidisciplinary Audiences:
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| DOMAIN |
LEVEL |
ASSOCIATED VERBS |
| Cognitive |
Knowledge/Comprehension |
Define, list, identify, indicate, recall, explain, contrast, report, classify, record, name, describe |
| Application |
Interpret, demonstrate, discuss, illustrate, assess, predict, dramatize |
| Analysis/Synthesis |
Design, compose, organize, judge, appraise, generalize, question, analyze, summarize |
| Psychomotor |
Perception |
Assemble, attend, check, initiate, reproduce, use |
| Performance |
Demonstrate, direct, manage, act, administer, care for, organize, separate, align, examine |
| Complex Responses |
Activate, compile, communicate, guide, operate, reorganize, separate, align, examine |
| Affective |
Receiving/Responding |
Attend, prefer, accept, receive, perceive, notice, react, consider |
| Value |
Support, develop, defend, emphasize, implore, praise |
| Characterization |
Convince, ignore, adhere, affirm, appreciate, motivate, judge, verify |
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