Elder Care: A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: Hypothyroidism in the Very Old

Elder Care: A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: Hypothyroidism in the Very Old
University of Arizona College of Medicine
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Product ID: 20568

Abstract: 
"Hypothyroidsim in the Very Old" is one of a continuing series of practical, evidence based, Provider Fact Sheets which summarize key geriatric topics and provide clinically useful assessments and interventions. Initially developed for remote, rural clinical sites,  they are useful for students and health care professionals from many fields and across a very broad range of health care settings.
Estimated time to complete: 
30 minutes

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Educational objectives: 

Objectives:
1. Explain the association between hypothyroidism and coronary heart disease
2. Describe the approach to dosing of thyroid hormone supplementation for very old individuals and for people with known coronary heart disease
3. Specify the goal level of thyroid stimulating hormone when providing thyroid hormone supplementation to very old individuals
Additional information/Special implementation requirements or guidelines: 
Subscribers to POGOe are free to reprint Elder Care on their own stationery or in other publications without obtaining specific permission, so long as
(1) content is not changed, 
(2) no one is charged a fee to use or read the publication, 
(3) authors and their affiliated institutions are noted without change, and 
(4) the reprint includes the following statement: “Reprinted courtesy of the Arizona Reynolds Program of Applied Geriatrics and the Arizona Geriatric Education Center."
Publications from, presentations from, and/or citations to this product: 
The Elder Care provider sheets are occasionally published in the Arizona Geriatrics Society Journal, which is published twice yearly.

Nelson, D. and Medina-Walpole, A. (2010, December), Elder care provider fact sheets. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 58(12), 2414-2415. Also available online.
 
Date posted: 
Tue, 09/29/2009
Date last updated: 
Thu, 12/16/2010
CME credits available: 
No
Has this product been peer reviewed?: 
No
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Sponsor: 
Other Sponsors: Arizona Center on Aging

Contact person/corresponding author: 
Dr. Barry Weiss (bdweiss@email.arizona.edu)
Authors: 
Dr. Barry Weiss
NLM Citation:
Weiss, B. Elder Care: A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: Hypothyroidism in the Very Old. POGOe - Portal of Geriatric Online Education; 2009 Available from: http://www.pogoe.org/productid/20568
APA Citation:
Weiss, B. (2009). Elder Care: A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: Hypothyroidism in the Very Old. POGOe - Portal of Geriatric Online Education. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from http://www.pogoe.org/productid/20568