'Risk Assessment & Prevention of Falls in Older Community-Dwelling Adults' (JAMA 2024) - '>25% of older adults fall each year & falls are the leading cause of injury-related death in persons >65. Functional exercises & tai chi decrease the risk of falls' - jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Too true

Cardiologists Can deprescribe too!!!

Anyone know of studies on impact of entresto specifically on QOL in older adults? WHO ARE MY GERI CARDS PEEPS OUT THERE?? I know it helps the middle aged but I see soooo much hypotension in older adults on this med. #cardiology #geriatrician #HFrEF

We are thrilled to be hiring for an additional #geriatrician in our ambulatory geriatrics program Cedars-Sinai . Please spread the word to your geriatrician colleagues! Cedars-SinaiMed

healthecareers.com/ags/job/geriat…

Train Yourself to Always Show Up nytimes.com/2024/01/19/opi… the essence of #palliativecare

Hi friends:
We have an open 1-year clinical slot at Johns Hopkins Geriatric Medicine & Gerontology

I would love to talk with applicants from Family & IM who maybe didn’t get what they hoped on fellowship match day but are open to joining THE BEST FIELD. Let’s do this!!

DMs open 💜

Brilliant article on what constitutes a clinically meaningful benefit from treatment for #Alzheimer 's disease, and how to actually measure it. #EndAlz
thelancet.com/journals/lanhl…

Beyond proud of this episode with my friend and inhaler guru Amber Lanae Martirosov. Special thanks to HRSA GACA for supporting me to think about this important topic the last 4 years. #geripulm #inhalersareconfusing #learnPartD American Geriatrics Society American Thoracic Society (ATS) CMSGov UCSF Health

Did you know persons over age 80 dont get COPD?
Well I didn't either COPD VERY common in older persons Yet study of novel new RX for COPD + eosinophilia excluded age >80
Ageist Inexcusable Once again NEJM publishes without even noting this as limitation nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Have they tried just having the existing primary care doctors simply see more patients and increasing administrative burden while continuing to structure training so that the end result is specialization? Might be worth a shot.

JUST OUT: An impressive study in JAMA Psychiatry concludes that the #Oregon decrim initiative (and a similar law in #Washington ) DID NOT result in an increase in #overdose fatalities. Evidence-based studies were & are crucial to sustaining support for #decrim
jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

Today we launch our 7-episode series, The Nocturnists Post Roe America. In the premiere, we hear about the day Roe fell, and follow a clinician in Tennessee as she scrambles to interpret the law in her state. shorturl.at/sGPY9 🏜️ #medx #MedTwitter

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is announcing the first 10 drugs selected for Medicare price negotiation.

Seniors paid $3.4 billion in out-of-pocket costs for these 10 drugs in 2022. President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act is working to bring down those costs.

The 2023 updated AGS Beers Criteria for potentially inappropriate medication use in older adults is a tour de force! Reading this will make you a better and safer prescriber of medicines in older persons. agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg…

Powerful local take on moral injury for PCPs, 1 day clinician strike at FQHC. Adding to the chorus of canaries in the coal mine. Big changes needed now. Dedicated doctors are leaving medicine. This isn’t burnout. It’s a medical crisis sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…

Sobering track of a trainee through the medical education industrial complex by excellent work by Jason M. Satterfield
arguably a similar trajectory for those passionate about #primarycare and #CommunityEngagement

In 2023 in the USA, my 2 kids are more likely to be killed by GUNS than anything else. That includes car accidents, drownings, or cancer.

So we wear orange. 🧡
To raise awareness against gun violence. For their lives, & the other lives their mama has tried to save & couldn’t.

By 2025 there will be 6,230 geriatricians 😭 #geriatrician #primarycare

Delighted that the 2023 AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medications in Older Adults is now officially released.

agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Some important updates from the 2019 version:

- All sulfonylureas (not just long-acting ones) are ...