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Thanks to the AAFP 2004 Annual Clinical Focus: Caring for America's Aging Population, you can look forward to receiving a wealth of information on health care for elderly people throughout the coming year. The Academy officially launched the 2004 ACF at this year's Assembly.
Diverse and comprehensive, Caring for America's Aging Population will cover three age groups: those 50-65 years old, those 65-80, and those 80 and older. The initiative will address the psychosocial and physical changes associated with aging, multiple chronic health problems, management of common geriatric syndromes, medications and drug interactions, ethical issues, and challenges of management across clinical settings.
Core elements of the 2004 ACF are supported by unrestricted educational grants from Merck/Schering-Plough Pharmaceuticals Joint Venture, Aventis Pharmaceuticals, AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb/Sanofi Pharmaceuticals Partnership, Forest Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Ortho Biotech. Core elements include: a CME video/monograph program, an American Family Physician monograph, various patient education handouts, inclusion of ACF topics at national AAFP CME courses throughout 2004, an online ACF discussion/information site through the ACF Web page at http://www.aafp.org/acf.xml, a wrap-up CD-ROM of ACF 2004 and more.
The 2004 initiative will also include a variety of additional elements, such as a chapter lecture series, CME Bulletins, DVD/monographs, research study and ACF programs at the Family Practice Board Review Courses (to be renamed Family Medicine Board Review Courses for 2005 and beyond).
ACF 2004 is developed in cooperation with the AARP, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, American Cancer Society, American Diabetes Association, American Geriatrics Society, American Heart Association, National Cancer Institute and National Institute on Aging.
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