I am so proud of City of Hope @mycarg investigators Daneng Li William Dale, MD, PhD, FASCO and team who successfully completed Arti’s study and showed that geriatric assessment with a MDT can lower incidence of serious tox in #gerionc pts. We do miss you Arti. ❤️

Well done systematic review finds there are no drugs that provide substantial benefit for persons with dementia. Cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine may lead to small improvement-so small caregiver might not notice #geriatrics #hpm acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M1…

Thoughtful viewpoint on reactive vs proactive deprescribing - and how we need more attention on the latter - by the rock-star trio of Tim Anderson Parag Goyal MD MSc and @zacharyamarcum.

link.springer.com/article/10.100…

@Deprescribing US Deprescribing Research Network (USDeN)

Congratulations to our first cohort of junior investigators selected for the Intensive in Deprescribing Research Program. We look forward to working with these 15 outstanding investigators in the coming year! Visit our website to learn more: deprescribingresearch.org/junior-investi…

Rob Schreiber So #MedTwitter #weareGeriatrics A first cause to propose. Many clinical trials launching to test COVID19 treatments & vaccines are excluding patients over 65/70. Arguments are safety reasons or expediency. It’s #ageism ! We have to fight this. Need to include the target group!

The role of illness acuity on the association between frailty and mortality in emergency department patients referr… pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32392289/ Here is the link: 0.1093/ageing/afaa089. Sorry for the error in the Abstract

Division of Aging faculty member Tammy Hshieh, MD, MPH published an article that links severe delirium with increased risk of poor outcomes in patients with and without dementia. #geriatrics #delirium #dementia #medtwitter
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Effect of a Mammography Screening Decision Aid for Women 75 Years and Older ja.ma/2VLepmI

Fantastic and much needed work by #lifegoals Mara Schonberg

Caring for older adults isolated at home during the COVID-19 pandemic - key challenges and what we can do to address them. Our viewpoint in JAMA Internal Medicine:

jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

@LPerrytheGeriMD US Deprescribing Research Network (USDeN) UCSF Geriatrics Ken Covinsky Mike Wasserman American Geriatrics Society

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Just What Older People Didn’t Need: More Isolation Excellent @Paula_Span article about the dangers loneliness and social isolation pose to seniors because of COVID social distancing @geriatrics #hpm nytimes.com/2020/04/13/hea…

Deficit-accumulation #frailty index with high proportion of #comorbidity items (eg, #EHR -based FI) upshifts FI distribution; FI with high proportion of #function items & few #comorbidity items downshifts distribution. Great job! Sandra Shi JAGS

Does Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Modify Delirium Severity and Hospital Outcomes? #geriatrics onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg…

'If we make age the sole criterion for rationing, we take a giant step toward overt valuing of some lives over others' -Louise Aronson in NEJM. nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… #geriatrics #covid19 #bioethics

Older Adults Can Successfully Monitor Symptoms Using an Inclusively Designed Mobile Application. #geriatrics #HAPC onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg…

Utility of a claims-based #frailty index for cost prediction. Check out a review of 21 #frailty scores for health care databases: bit.ly/2wQ38cs Comparison of 4 #Medicare frailty scores: bit.ly/2x44ksO SAS code available: bit.ly/3bXqnjx

New #openaccess article on how the estimates of meaningful change of frailty measures can help guide the choice of frailty measures to track changes of frailty in clinical trials & clinical care of community-dwelling #olderadults .
Dae Kim Il-Young Jang
bit.ly/3dYOdx9

Open to suggestions. Working with Dr Linda Dykes @[email protected] to make an infographic. A #ClinicalFrailtyScale app is coming from Simon Conroy and Acute Frailty Network We're updating our basic instructions. Geriatric Medicine Research (GMR) will be posting them soon. Check out DanielMcIssaac's bit.ly/2ocyAgD

A state-of-art review on claim based frailty assessmeny by Dae Kim #Geriatrics e-agmr.org/m/journal/view…