Total Credits: 1.0 including 1.0 AOA Category 1-A Credit(s)
Objectives– Following this lecture participants will be able to:
1. Recognize the damaging impacts of ageism in healthcare
2. Describe the beneficial impacts of age positivity
3. Discuss how age positivity can be promoted and ageism can be reduced through awareness, training, and adjustments to policies and procedures
This session is accredited for a maximum of 1.0 AOA Category 1-A credits. Credits commensurate with participation in the session will be awarded.
MOA Grievance Policy: All grievances should be initially directed in writing to the MOA Executive Director by email to info@mainedo.org who will share them with the MOA's Program Committee. Grievances will receive a response within 30 days of receipt. If you do not receive a satisfactory response, you may notify the Council on Continuing Medical Education, AOA, 142 East Ontario St., Chicago, IL 60611.
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Kathy Vezina joined the Maine Council on Aging (MCOA) in 2021 and
serves as the project lead for the Equity & Healthy Aging Initiative and content lead on
the Reducing Ageism in Healthcare Team. Kathy is a Registered Nurse, a Nurse
Practitioner (inactive), and a Maine attorney and has worked in leadership roles in a
leadership development organization, community behavioral health, reproductive
justice, and in private practice in a health law firm. She is a graduate of the University
of Maine School of Law and the University of California San Francisco in Nursing.
Earlier in her career, Kathy worked as an RN in several primary care practices and has
provided legal counsel for various primary care and behavioral health providers in
Maine.
Kathy Vezina has no actual or potential conict of interest, nancial relationship/arrangement or aliation with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients.
Dr. Spear grew up and attended school in Maine, earning an undergraduate degree from the University of Maine and a medical degree from the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine. She completed residency training in internal medicine at UConn Health. Following a chief resident year focused on teaching skills, she completed a combined geriatric medicine and hospice and palliative medicine fellowship at Yale University.
Dr. Spear works for the Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency, serving as Program Director for the Geriatric Medicine Fellowship. Her clinical practice includes inpatient consultation at MaineGeneral Medical Center and outpatient consultation focused on cognitive concerns at Maine Dartmouth Geriatric Medicine.
Rebecca Spear has no actual or potential conflict of interest, financial relationship/arrangement or affiliation with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients.
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