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Pulmonary Conditions Affecting Older Persons is a Course

Pulmonary Conditions Affecting Older Persons

Started Feb 13, 2020
1.5 credits

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Older persons are susceptible to lung diseases that make breathing difficult and may cause other problems with cognition, endurance, and the ability to manage activities of daily living. This course reviews the causes and symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD), along with treatment and strategies for service providers and consumers.

This course is available for CRC, ACVREP, and NBPCB credit.

Course Objectives:

  1. Recognize the causes, symptoms, and treatments for chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases.
  2. Recognize the services and strategies providers can offer to consumers who have COPD.

The following are supported screen reader and browser combinations for this course: Macintosh: VoiceOver (latest version for Safari) PC: JAWS and NVDA (latest version for Firefox) Internet Explorer is not supported. The course shows a start date, but that is simply the date the course was made available to the public. They are self-paced. So, there is not an end date. You can enroll at any time. This course was developed by the National Research & Training Center on Blindness & Low Vision (NRTC) at Mississippi State University. We are the only national center funded to conduct research related to employment for people with blindness or low vision, and training and technical assistance for the federal Older Individuals who are Blind program. As a national center of excellence, we offer resources on a variety of topics for service providers, businesses, and persons with vision loss on our websites:

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