Dr. Andrea Holzner

Focusing on current issues surrounding intimacy, sexuality, and Dementia/Alzheimer's disease. Helping couples, caregivers, and industry, understand safety, nuances, changes, transitions, and couple closeness. Caregiver training on sexualized behavior, supporting residents, and education.
Best practices and ethical standards of caregiving, aging communities, and industry housing. Enhanced caregiver, social worker and industry Alzheimer's training.
Developing best practices with housing, caregiving, hospice, and grieving.
Alternative therapies other than psychotropic drugs - research.

Autonomy ~ Justice ~ Beneficence
Comprehensive approach to integrating counties and regions for best practices and standards relating to aging populations: Falls, nursing home training, staff anxiety, resident behaviors (sexualized behavior, agitation, mobility), polypharmacy and titrating medications with medical staff.

Establishing rural aging infrastructures and sustainability: Healthcare,Housing,Transportation,Civic engagement,Nutrition services,Social services
With increasing aging populations aging in place rurally, understanding needs and creating services, volunteerism, and community, is critical. Sustainable Home Environment Solutions,
Staffing and Program Sustainability, Program Funding, &
Service Reimbursement

Preparing aging staff and aging professionals to support loved ones and families managing Alzheimer's as they transition to memory care housing. Communication, support, choosing the best housing, and counseling

https://txohc.org/education/geratric-dentistry-webinar/

Understanding nuances with geriatric patients for oral healthcare!
1. Be prepared as our aging demographic growth continues with an understanding of the geriatric patient base,
2. Learn new techniques for communication, services, and outreach,
3. Recognize new treatment planning options
4. Define sustainable geriatric care

Geriatric patients comprise 30-40% of a chiropractor’s patient base. Chiropractic care for geriatric patients demands innovative, interdisciplinary, and comprehensive approaches. This course provides an understanding of the chiropractic geriatric patient, communication techniques, innovative approaches to treatment planning, adjustment, and sustainable patient care. Chiropractors are in a great position to help with disease prevention, geriatric injuries, balance, minimizing dementia or pain, and providing a better overall patient care experience. Incorporating the caregiver in long-term planning is critical for sustainable geriatric care. Chronic comorbid conditions, arthritis, and Alzheimer’s disease need chiropractic techniques that will reduce the impact. Chiropractors can not only provide a valuable service for geriatric patients and their loved ones but enhance their overall patient services, revenue, and presence in their community.