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The CDC doubles down on its flawed, not evidence based Covid recommendations with a new guidance document 1. Leaves fully vaccinated = 2 shots, stay "up to date" 2. Leaves isolation at 5 days w/o rapid tests 3. Pushes "community levels" when real info is "transmission levels"

I hesitate to criticize CDC. It is full of bright, hardworking career scientists, & critique of policy gets conflated with critique of them. That said, I find the latest #COVIDguidance flawed. It sacrifices the vulnerable, offers false reassurance, & ignores inconvenient data.

My question for those in #NewYork, esp those in #healthcare, do you have access to primary care too? Can people see specialists in weeks to months, not longer? In #SanFrancisco all major centers are closed to primary care or backed up into 2023. It's horrific for patients.

Family caregiving and employment: Often not a compatible combination. I wrote about new research showing that eldercare can drive workers out of the labor force for years, or for good, with ongoing repercussions for caregivers, employers, the economy. nytimes.com/2022/09/04/sci…

It's time for #agejustice Great analysis of the last three years here: Ageism’s Toll in the Age of COVID | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Harvard University University #aging radcliffe.harvard.edu/news-and-ideas…

Disconcerting. Clearly, our messages regarding abolishing #ageism & separating chronological age from level of competence aren't getting through to enough people. We have to keep calling out such ignorant, sensational journalism whenever we encounter it! cbsnews.com/news/elected-o…

The problem is that old age is different than other life stages. Most 2 or 22 or 42 year olds are the same. Not so for 82 year olds. So chronologic age because a much less useful or precise metric. It's about functional status and that varies most in old age. #aging

Looking forward to it!!

All my patients are asking when/whether to get the new booster. See below for the take of two of my most reliable sources Bob Wachter agreeing with Katelyn Jetelina. If you follow #COVID19 news and don't follow them, you are missing out!

Extraordinarily powerful NEJM graphic piece illustrating the hidden crisis of family caregiving, and the disproportionate toll it takes on women: nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… Everyone has a role to play in better supporting unpaid family caregivers. We can and must do better.

📚"Except the longer we keep you alive, the more likely you are to reach the phase of old age when most of modern society and medicine have nothing for you, not even dignity or compassion." Come to the #KingLecture in just 4 days to hear how Louise Aronson is changing that!

In this episode of The Doctor's Art #podcast, #geriatrician and author Louise Aronson shares her hopeful vision for the future of #longevity and discusses how we can foster healthy and meaningful #aging. Stanford Medicine & the Muse Stanford Center on Longevity Stanford Medicine podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rei…

No one seems to have pushed him in all the previous months to have the difficult conversation about his future. Louise Aronson wrote for us what this looked like from a geriatrician's perch.

Doctors call discussions of existential issues—particularly those with inherent uncertainty and ambiguity—difficult conversations. Biden had his in public in part because American society leaves little room for them, @louisearonson writes. theatlantic.com/health/archive…

MON at 10AM w/ Lesley McClurg: Louise Aronson joins to talk about how to navigate conversations about elder care with parents or loved ones. ❓What questions do you have about broaching difficult conversations with family about elder care? forbes.com/health/senior-…

"By staying in the race after he began to present such a concerning picture of health, Biden himself may have contributed to public conflations of old age and frailty." -CASBS fellow & geriatrician Louise Aronson, writing in The Atlantic