Our video has been published NEJM - assessing mobility in older adults is as important as any other screening procedure and can reveal so much. Congratulations @DrKirstynJames and Dr. Andrea Schwartz! nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… VA Boston HC Brigham and Women’s Division of Aging American Geriatrics Society

Primary Care Tip:
Youve been seeing older patient for many years Then one day pt comes to visit accompanied by daughter
This is likely a sentinel event Something has changed Your pt isnt doing as well as you thought Need to learn why daughter worried + do geriatric assessment

Recommend this excellent How To video series from AARP--Lots of practical advice for caregivers on a range of topics--preparing for hospital stay, using medical equipment, incontinence, mobility, wound care
aarp.org/ppi/initiative…

Check out our website for information about our #HMIEducators , #HMIVirtual , #HMILeaders , and #HMIAssessment courses, as well as our #HMICommunity Blog and #HMIChat !

#MedEd #HPE #MedTwitter

harvardmacy.org

Important study shows older people living in disadvantaged neighborhoods at higher risk of becoming disabled and needing help with self-care Societal structural disparities impact health #sdoh The Pepper OAIC Coordinating Center ja.ma/2Wk6dhe via JAMA Internal Medicine

nytimes.com/2021/08/12/opi…

agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg…

nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Do you keep a teaching portfolio or #educator portfolio?!

If so, how do you organize it?!

If not, is it bc you’ve never needed it?

“Geriatricians have a LOT to say about aducanumab” was definitely my take-home from this journal club with our thoughtful and passionate Mount Sinai GeriPal clinicians!

Congrats to all of our amazing HMS Multicampus Geriatrics 2021 fellows graduating this month. It's been amazing having you and we can't wait to see your careers blossom!

When a male attending double checks things, it’s “so helpful”

When a female attending double checks things, it’s micromanaging 🤷🏽‍♀️

If this comes across your feed and you are not Black, this is two hours of time that you need to spend. The hard part, the part that I do not believe is possible, is that you will then use your power to do the necessary work. #BlackLivesMatter
theintercept.com/2020/06/10/rut…

Biden Begins An Important, Much-Delayed, National Debate About Long-Term Care Reform via .Forbes #LTC #ElderCare #Caregiving
forbes.com/sites/howardgl…

What was your favorite or most impactful journal article on #geriatrics or #aging in 2020? Could be from any journal (peds journal would be weird but I’ll take it) #MedTwitter

Eric Widera, MD The most important question for me in 2020 was adressed by Kei Ouchi, MD, MPH pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32747084/

Eric Widera, MD pnas.org/content/117/28…

jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Here's the full poem from Amanda Gorman, who is the youngest poet to ever read at an inauguration.

'Somehow we've weathered and witnessed a nation that isn't broken, but simply unfinished.'

Our RCT in Lancet Respiratory Medicine on ACEi/ARB withdrawal in COVID-19. No net benefit/harm!! International effort, led by ⁦Jordy Cohen, MD, MSCE⁩ and ⁦@JulioChirinosMd⁩. Proud of ⁦Penn Medicine⁩, ⁦Penn Cardiology,⁩ ⁦Dept. of Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics⁩. thelancet.com/journals/lanre…