Primary Care Perspectives on Alzheimer’s Disease: Adaptive Strategies to Improve Cognitive Assessment, Promote Earlier Diagnosis, and Optimize Care

March 23, 2023

Target Audience

This activity is designed to meet the educational needs of physicians attending AAFP Chapter Meetings across the U.S.

Learning Objectives

  • Review the etiology, epidemiology, and multifaceted pathophysiology of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), highlighting pathologic processes that may manifest years before symptom onset.
  • Discuss the paramount importance of symptom recognition and routine screening protocols to identify mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and promote early AD diagnosis.
  • Evaluate currently-available cognitive assessment tools, with an emphasis on those best suited for the primary care setting, and summarize expert consensus AD diagnostic criteria across the disease continuum.
  • Examine how biomarker-driven disease characterization, including blood-based metrics, supports timely and accurate AD diagnosis and treatment initiation.
  • Use real-world cases from the primary care perspective to design evidence-supported and patient-centric diagnostic plans that incorporate shared decision making and multidisciplinary and interprofessional referrals.

Presented by Creative Educational Concepts, LLC.

Supported through an independent educational grant from Genentech

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Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 AAFP Elective
    The AAFP has reviewed this activity and deemed it acceptable for Live AAFP Elective credits.
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 Participation
Course opens: 
03/01/2023
Course expires: 
04/23/2023
Event starts: 
03/23/2023 - 8:00am EDT
Event ends: 
03/23/2023 - 9:00am EDT

  5 min      Welcome and Introductions/Pre-test

10 min      Fundamental Facets of Alzheimer’s Disease: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, and the Critical Need for Early Diagnosis

20 min      Recognizing Early Cognitive Decline: Principal Pillars of Cognitive Assessment in the Primary Care Setting

15 min      Fortifying the Frontline: The Sentinel Role of the Primary Care Clinician on the Comprehensive Care Team

10 min      Conversations with the Experts: Audience Q&A/Post-test

West Virginia AAFP Chapter
Embassy Suites
Charleston, WV
United States

Gregory A. Jicha, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology
Robert T. & Nyles Y. McCowan Endowed Chair in Alzheimer's Disease
Sanders-Brown Center on Aging
University of Kentucky Alzheimer's Disease Center
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY

 


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Planner:
Mark J. Huffmyer, PharmD, BCGP, BCACP–has no relevant financial relationships to disclose in relation to the content of this activity.

Faculty:
Alireza Atri, MD, PhD–disclosures to come.
Gregory A. Jicha, MD, PhD–has disclosed that he receives research support from Cassava, Cyclerion, Eisai, Lilly, Neurovision, Novo Nordisk, and Vivoryon.

Peer Reviewer:
Jennifer Gholson, MD–has no relevant financial relationships to disclose in relation to the content of this activity.

CEC Staff/Planners:
Erin Spencer, PharmD–has no relevant financial relationships to disclose in relation to the content of this activity.
Ashley C. Lilly, MHA–has no relevant financial relationships to disclose in relation to the content of this activity.

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Medicine (ACCME)
CEC designates this live educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

AAFP
The AAFP has reviewed Primary Care Perspectives on Alzheimer’s Disease: Adaptive Strategies to Improve Cognitive Assessment, Promote Earlier Diagnosis, and Optimize Care, and deemed it acceptable for AAFP credit. Term of approval is from 02/15/2023 to 06/30/2023. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Upon completion of a CE request form, statements of credit for physicians will be issued within 30 business days. 

Available Credit

  • 1.00 AAFP Elective
    The AAFP has reviewed this activity and deemed it acceptable for Live AAFP Elective credits.
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 Participation
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