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Falling: The Dangers of Multifocals

Tracking # 20-958306

$20.00

4.8 (51 ratings)
Educator OPTICAL SEMINARS
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Method Home Study

What you'll learn

Upon completing this one-hour home study module, participants should:

  1. Have a clear understanding of a root-cause analysis.
  2. Be more aware of the relationship between wearing multifocals and falling.
  3. Be able to communicate more effectively with geriatric patients.
  4. Offer non-optical actions that senior patients can implement to improve their vision.
  5. Obtain a minimum score of 70% on the 20-question final assessment.

Course overview

This one-hour, home-study, technical course explores what is a real fear for most of our senior patients: Falling. You will learn just how significant this problem is and learn of a troubling causal link between falling and wearing bifocals and progressive lenses. We briefly delve into Root-Cause Analysis to determine just how much of a contributing factor wearing multifocals is to suffering a fall. Most importantly, we learn about all of the optical solutions to help our senior patients mitigate the risk.

Subject areas

This course counts toward the state boards and subject areas below.

Florida Board of Opticianry

Optician

1h Technical Practice

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Course Objectives

Upon completing this one-hour home study module, participants should:

  1. Have a clear understanding of a root-cause analysis.
  2. Be more aware of the relationship between wearing multifocals and falling.
  3. Be able to communicate more effectively with geriatric patients.
  4. Offer non-optical actions that senior patients can implement to improve their vision.
  5. Obtain a minimum score of 70% on the 20-question final assessment.

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