Serena
Wong,
DO
Assistant Professor, Medicine-Geriatrics
Duke University School of Medicine
Serena P. Wong, DO, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatrics for Duke University School of Medicine and is a Senior Fellow in the Aging Center at Duke. Her interests include patient-centered care, education for patients, families, and interprofessional teams, perioperative geriatric medicine, and quality improvement.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
People living with dementia are vulnerable to inequitable care related to ageism and ableism. In the inpatient setting, these patients are at nutritional risk due to high rates of delirium, impaired communication, and dysphagia. Specialized team-based, interprofessional approaches to care can improve nutrition, but many providers and staff are not aware of these. In this talk, we will describe an interprofessional curriculum to address this.Our educational team includes an occupational therapist, registered dietitian, speech-language pathologists, geriatrician, nurses, and a physician…