You are invited to the next webinar of the Global Frailty Network FSS Wednesday, May 8th, 2024, 12 PM ET. Dr. Matteo Cesari, MD, PhD from the World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland will present 'Frailty and Intrinsic Capacity.' Please REGISTER at mhs.webex.com/weblink/regist…

Great opportunity for early-stage clinician investigators pursuing aging research and training The Pepper OAIC Coordinating Center The AGING Initiative The National Institute on Aging (NIA) NIDUS Delirium Network US Deprescribing Research Network (USDeN) Research Centers Collaborative Network (RCCN) American Geriatrics Society The John A. Hartford Foundation Alliance for Aging Research

Our article (acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2…) was featured in the ACP 2024 meeting session 'Recent Articles That You Should Know About.' Thank you! Annals of Int Med Ariela Orkaby MD MPH Brigham and Women’s Division of Aging Brigham and Women’s Research

Walking reduces all cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality, and the burden of many other diseases.🚶🏻🚶🏻‍♀️ 💪🏻🩺🫀🚶🏻🚶🏻‍♀️

Congratulations to this all star team for a timely review of AF management in older adults with frailty! Aaron Troy, MD MPH Andrea Nathalie Rosas Diaz Darae Ko, MD, MSc, FAHA
Abiah Pritchard Rati Vani

Another opportunity to deprescribe? More data like these are needed in the modern era to ensure appropriate prescribing! Amy Linsky, MD, MSc Tim Anderson Andrew Zullo, PharmD Parag Goyal MD MSc

📢 Top line results from the PERFORM-TAVR trial presented today at #ACC late breaking clinical trials💥

12-week home exercise + nutrition intervention meaningfully improved physical performance in frail TAVR patients

TAVR alone (usual care) not so much…Take home: treat the

An honor to be a part of this illustrious team! Abdulla A. Damluji, MD, PhD

Another study showing that any increase in physical activity is good for the body - even at older age!

Frailty Index, Not Age, Predicts Treatment Outcomes and Adverse Events for Older Adults with Cancer. Fletcher, J., et al. doi.org/10.14283/jfa.2…  #olderadults #Frailty #Cancer

🚨New in Annals of Int Med🚨

Our team systematically reviewed clinical practice guidelines for managing elevated BPs pressure in the hospital...

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Chlorhexidine bathing and nasal decolonization for residents in 35 health care facilities were associated with lower multidrug-resistant organism prevalence, incident clinical cultures, infection-related hospitalization, and deaths. ja.ma/3TWIwXB

I’m at it again this year. Kristin Zimmerman and I are presenting Updates in Deprescribing. This time on home turf so who knows what’s in store!

Frailty as an upstream target for intervention: A unifying approach to intervening in the trajectories of health, function, and disease in late life. #geriatrics agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg…

Well done. Delirium as a preventable cause of dementia deserves study. Much of it arises unrecognized from unnecessarily hazardous routine care of older patients who live with frailty. Polypharmacy, untreated pain, immobilization, and chronic indifference all take a costly toll.

Approximately 30% of adults aged 65 years or older experience at least 1 fall annually.

This article summarizes a 2022 clinical practice guideline on falls prevention and management in older adults from the World Falls Guidelines Initiative.

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🥸How do you assess frailty in the CICU when frailty tools are mainly developed for outpatient settings?

😱We address this this question in this manuscript:

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Frailty in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit: Assessment and Impact: European Society of Cardiology Journals
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Calling early career internal medicine faculty: We are hoping to make this a life-transforming adventure. Join us! It will help in any career involving clinical research and publication.

Major new Age_and_Ageing paper - our eFalls prediction model report academic.oup.com/ageing/article… Potential to transform falls prevention. Funded by NIHR Research & amazing team Academic Unit for Ageing and Stroke Research Richard Riley (R²) SAILDatabank @connectedbfd UK Falls Prevention Network British Geriatrics Society NIHR Yorkshire & Humber ARC Health Data Research UK (HDR UK)

Gerofit is such an amazing program for physical health & social connection ❤️ 💙 VA Boston HC