Strategies, best practices, and tools for state-of-the-art care and transition of young adults with chronic conditions
This special program provides education to optimize:
- Clinical approaches to care of adolescents and young adults with chronic conditions, mental illness, autism, physical disabilities
- The transition of these patients to—and acceptance of these patients into—adult care: timing, assessment, checklists, legal and insurance considerations
This program also provides guidance to:
- Find adult providers
- Approach reimbursement
- Promote self-management and advocacy
- Ensure successful transfer
Optimized Clinical Approaches
- Updates for a wide range of chronic conditions
- Strategies to support patients with mental illness
- Care for the pregnant patient with chronic disease
- Best practices for patients with autism
- State-of-the-art approaches to manage chronic pain in young adults
- Current approaches to substance abuse in young adults
- What to screen for in a young adult cancer survivor
- Screening for high-risk behaviors and their impact on chronic illness
- Addressing sexual health and fertility with young adults who have chronic conditions
- Updates and current cases of e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury (EVALI) in young adults with chronic conditions
- Differentiating treatment as patients age
Transitioning Patients To and Accepting Patients Into Adult Care Practices
- Timing: when to begin the process of integrating young adults into adult care
- Evidence-based approaches to prepare patients for adult care
- How to expediently teach self-management skills
- Understanding unique needs of patients with pediatric-acquired illness
- Preventing adverse health outcomes as patients move to adult care
- Best practices to utilize team-based care to optimize the transition
- Advocacy and healthcare reform in transition care
- Encouraging adherence through shared decision-making: when, why, how
- Devising and implementing effective transition policies and training
- Developing individualized transition plans
- Transition timing and tracking of progress
- Accommodating young adults with developmental disabilities in your setting
- Assessing functional capacity to determine need for guardianship
- Social determinants of health in chronic disease management
- Development of a community health worker program
- Current approaches to preventive counseling and anticipatory guidance
Helping Patients with Self-Care and Advocacy
- Independent living
- Self-management
- Self-advocacy
- Decision-making
- Information sharing
- Effective communications
- Patient self-advocacy with insurance companies and other care providers
- Transition to college/community living
Education for Pediatric, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Subspecialty Practices
Taught by nationally renowned experts, this program provides state-of-the-art strategies to optimize clinical practices, effectively transition patients to adult care, and help patients elevate their quality of life in the following types of practices:
Pediatric Practices: Strategies and Best Practices to Successfully Transition Young Adults to Adult Care
- Transition timing and tracking of progress
- Assessing functional capacity to determine need for guardianship
- Developing individualized transition plans
- Devising and implementing effective transition policies
Family Medicine and Medicine-Pediatric Practices
- Encouraging adherence through shared decision-making: when, why, how
- Differentiating treatment as patients age
- How to expediently teach self-management skills
- Current approaches to preventative counseling and anticipatory guidance
- Strategies for pediatric practices having difficulty finding adult medicine care into which they can transition patients with chronic or medically complex conditions
Internal Medicine Practices: Strategies and Best Practices to Successfully Onboard Young Adults into Your Practice
- Understanding unique needs of patients with pediatric acquired illness
- Quality improvement strategies to optimize care of young adults
- Updates to prevent adverse health outcomes as patients move to adult care
- Accommodating needs of young adults with developmental disabilities in your setting
Pediatric Subspecialty Practices
- Screening for high-risk behaviors and their impact on chronic illness
- Educating patients on impact of chronic illness on future fertility and pregnancy risks
- Best practices for transition timing: start early and track progress
- Referring to adult primary care providers as medical home for young adults
- Strategies for pediatric practices having difficulty finding adult medicine care into which they can transition patients with chronic or medically complex conditions
Adult Subspecialty Practices
- Encouraging adherence to optimize health outcomes
- Addressing sexual health and fertility issues
- Utilizing shared decision-making to set goals with patients
- Accommodating needs of young adults with developmental disabilities in your setting