Health-care professionals need to learn to deal with the families, which usually include children that may have left school to be at the side of their sick relatives, she said. Blackburn has been a social worker in the medical field for 18 years. She grew up in the Appalachian region of Kentucky. She works with Grant Riverside Senior Health in the Columbus area. Health-care professionals are invited to attend the seminar.
Brown bags are welcome.
This seminar is part of OU-COM's fall 2000 continuing education series on geriatric medicine and gerontology. Health professionals from the community regularly attend, in addition to interns, residents and medical students. The diversity of disciplines represented by the participants makes for an interesting exchange of ideas. Peterson said the seminar series was started by a federal grant that established OU-COM as a contributing site to the Western Reserve Geriatric Education Center in September 1994 and has supported many continuing education programs. Provided by the Department of Health and Human Services, the grant supports educational programs in geriatrics and gerontology for physicians, nurses, social workers, counselors and health-care providers to 22 Southeastern Ohio counties.