Geriatrics Literature Update: 2024

The Geriatric Literature Update is always popular at the AGS Annual Scientific Meeting. This recording focuses on 2023’s most important published papers. Discussion included the significance of findings and application to patient care. ...

GWEP-CC Age-Friendly Health Systems Action Community Virtual Meeting

The GWEP-CC Age-Friendly Health Systems Action Community’s Virtual Meeting provided the opportunity for GWEPs and representatives of their primary care practice partners to celebrate collective achievements and connect around the 4Ms of Age-Friendly care....

GWEP-CC Action Community Webinars: 4Ms Case Studies

The GWEP-CC webinars include pre-recorded case study videos created by GWEPs and their primary care practice partners. Each case study focuses on one of the 4Ms of Age-Friendly Care – what Matters, Mobility, Medication, or Mentation – in order to bring a patient’s voice to the audience... ...

2024 Update on Vaccination Strategies for Older Adults: Understanding the CDC Guidance and Learnings from the AGS Older Adults Vaccine Initiative

This session recording from the 2024 AGS Annual Scientific Meeting provides the latest information for healthcare professionals on vaccinations for older adults and shared how the AGS’ Older Adults Vaccine Initiative is making strides to increase vaccinations....

GRS Teaching Slides

Based on the AGS Geriatrics Review Syllabus: A Core Curriculum in Geriatric Medicine, GRS Teaching Slides includes slide presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint on numerous topics....

GNRS Teaching Slides

Based on the AGS Geriatric Nursing Review Syllabus (GNRS), the GNRS Teaching Slides include downloadable slide presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint on various topics....

AGS Beers Criteria® Teaching Slides

This presentation details commonly used medications that should be used with caution in older adults and how to use the 2023 AGS Beers Criteria® list in clinical decision making. ...

Caregiver Tips Presentation Kit

The AGS Health in Aging’s Caregiver Tips Presentation Set, an update to the previously published Eldercare At Home Presentation Kit, is a perfect resource for training family and informal caregivers, as well as for use with volunteers and home health aides. ...

How to Use the 2023 AGS Beers Criteria®

This product provides an introduction to the 2023 American Geriatrics Society Beers Criteria® and details seven key principles to guide optimal use of the AGS Beers Criteria® in a variety of settings....

Lecanemab: What Clinicians Should Know

AGS has developed preliminary advice to help clinicians in assisting their patients and surrogates to be fully informed about the risks and benefits of lecanemab based on the available data. Annotated inclusion and exclusion criteria tables are additionally available as a downloadable checklist for use in clinical practice....

AGS/ADGAP Geriatrics Curriculum for Residency Programs

The AGS/ADGAP Geriatrics Curriculum is a resource for Family Medicine and Internal Medicine residency programs, meant as a guide to support their curriculum development....

2023 AGS Beers Criteria® Pocketcard

This clinical tool, based on the 2023 AGS Beers Criteria® for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults, has been developed to assist healthcare providers in improving medication safety in older adults....

AGS Quick Guide to Diabetes Management in Older Adults

This quick guide provides a 5-step framework on diabetes management in older adults, and is based on the recommendations from the American Diabetes Association and the American Geriatrics Society....

Geriatrics Evaluation & Management Tools

The AGS Geriatrics Evaluation & Management (GEM) Tools include 22 concise, clinical templates which follow a History & Physical (H&P) format and are meant to provide guidance to clinicians and trainees who are caring for older adults....

Face-To-Face or Via Telehealth Video Visit: Scheduling Patient Encounters As COVID-19 Crisis Subsides

This quick guide provides guidance on when to schedule in person visits vs. virtual visits for older adults in the current COVID-19 climate. The guide is meant to help providers by presenting several conditions and offering advice about which ones favor in-person visits and which ones favor using telehealth....

From the American Geriatrics Society: The Geriatrics 5Ms Quick Guide

This quick guide provides a framework for caring for older adults through the aging process and the end of life that aligns with the 4Ms of Age Friendly Health Systems....

Multimorbidity Pocket Card

This Pocket Card is a reference tool that provides a resource to healthcare providers in implementing the 5 Guiding Principles in taking care of older adults with multimorbidity....

American Geriatrics Society Position Statement: Making Medical Treatment Decisions for Unrepresented Older Adults

This position statement, developed by the AGS Ethics Committee, provides an update to the 2017 statement and offers new guidance on care and decision-making for unrepresented older adults. Making medical decisions on behalf of unrepresented older adults is exceptionally challenging and, given demographic trends, is likely to become increasingly com...

AGS Position Statement: Resource Allocation Strategies and Age-Related Considerations in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond

COVID‐19 continues to impact older adults disproportionately, from severe illness and hospitalization to increased mortality risk. Concurrently, concerns about potential shortages of healthcare professionals and health supplies to address these needs have focused attention on how resources are ultimately allocated and used. Some strategies misgui...

When Women Rise, We All Rise: American Geriatrics Society Position Statement on Achieving Gender Equity in Geriatrics

Women working in the field of geriatrics have experienced discriminatory practices that mirror available data on the entire workforce. In this position article, the AGS outlines strategic objectives and practical recommendations for how geriatrics, as a field, can work together to achieve a future in which the rights of women are guaranteed and…...

Person-Centered Care: A Definition and Essential Elements

An expert panel convened by the American Geriatrics Society , in collaboration with the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and with support from The SCAN Foundation, released findings from a project defining “person-centered care.” Based on a comprehensive literature review and qualitative research, the panel descr...

American Geriatrics Society White Paper on Healthy Aging

“Healthy aging” sounds like a priority we all can share, but for geriatrics healthcare professionals that term represents something specific, and something worth defining....

Framework for Decision-making for Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions: Action Steps for the AGS Guiding Principles on the Care of Older Adults with Multimorbidity

The Framework for Decision-making for Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions translates The AGS Guiding Principles for the Care of Older Adults with Multimorbidity s into a framework of Actions and accompanying Action Steps for decision‐making for clinicians who provide both primary and specialty care to older people with MCCs....

American Geriatrics Society Updated Beers Criteria® for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults

The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) has released its latest update to one of geriatrics’ most frequently cited reference tools: The AGS Beers Criteria® for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults. With more than 90% of older people using at least one prescription and more than 66% using three or more in any given month, the A...

American Geriatrics Society Position Statement: Achieving High-Quality Multicultural Geriatric Care

This position statement, developed by the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) Ethnogeriatrics Committee, outlines healthcare disparities in the United States and the minimum quality indicators that healthcare organizations and healthcare providers should adopt to ensure that all older adults receive care that is culturally appropriate and takes into ...

American Geriatrics Society Care of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Older Adults Position Statement

There is ample evidence that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals face discrimination in the healthcare setting....

Optimal Perioperative Management of the Geriatric Patient

The older adult population (>65 years) is growing at a rapid rate, and a significant percentage of older adults undergo surgical procedures. This population has a unique set of needs owing to the effects of aging, some of which make them particularly prone to postoperative complications and a prolonged recovery. The purpose of this document is t...

American Geriatrics Society Clinical Practice Guideline for Postoperative Delirium in Older Adults

The overall goal of this clinical guideline is to improve clinical care of adults 65 years and older through prevention and treatment of delirium in the postoperative setting....

Choosing Wisely®: List: Tests and Treatments that Older Patients and Providers Should Question

The AGS is pleased to be partnering with the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Foundation's Choosing Wisely® Campaign to help physicians, patients, and other healthcare stakeholders...

American Geriatrics Society Feeding Tubes in Advanced Dementia Position Statement

The Feeding Tubes in Advanced Dementia Position Statement is now revised in response to studies regarding the natural history of eating difficulties and tube feeding in persons with advanced dementia....

Guiding Principles for the Care of Older Adults with Multimorbidity: A Stepwise Approach for Clinicians

These articles present a clinical approach to the care of older people with multimorbidity that describes guiding principles for the clinical management of this population....

Geriatric Emergency Department Guidelines

The purpose of these Geriatric Emergency Department Guidelines is to provide a standardized set of guidelines that can effectively improve the care of the geriatric population and which is feasible to implement in the Emergency Department....

Quality Improvement in Neurology: Dementia Management Quality Measures

This executive summary (full manuscript available at www.neurology.org) reports on a new measurement set for dementia management developed by an interdisciplinary Dementia Measures Work Group representing the major national organizations and advocacy organizations concerned with the care of individuals with dementia....

American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP)/American Geriatrics Society (AGS) Best Practices Guidelines: Optimal Preoperative Assessment of the Geriatric Surgical Patient

The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP)/American Geriatrics Society (AGS) Best Practices Guidelines focus on the optimal preoperative assessment of the geriatric surgical patient....

Guidelines for Improving the Care of Older Adults with Diabetes Mellitus: 2013 Update and Supplemental Information

Status : In-active

The AGS 2013 updated Guidelines for Improving the Care of Older Adults with Diabetes Mellitus continues to assist clinicians with tailoring diabetes care to the needs of individual persons with diabetes.

American Geriatrics Society Consensus Statement: Vitamin D for Prevention of Falls and their Consequences in Older Adults

Status : In-active

The AGS published this Consensus Statement to help primary care practitioners achieve adequate vitamin D intake from all sources in their older patients, with the goal of reducing falls and fall-related injuries....

Updated American Geriatrics Society/British Geriatrics Society Clinical Practice Guideline for Prevention of Falls in Older Persons and Recommendations

Status : In-active

Included are the American Geriatrics Society/British Geriatrics Society (AGS/BGS) Clinical Practice Guideline: Prevention of Falls in Older Person (2010) and a summary and list of these recommendations. ...

AGS Patient Handouts

The work of leading geriatrics clinicians and researchers, these Patient Handouts from the AGS Foundation for Health in Aging offer older adults and those who care for them advice on key health issues....

Staying Sharp for Dummies

Insight and actionable information on keeping your brain sharp as you age...

Alzheimer's and Dementia For Dummies

Your sensitive, authoritative guide to Alzheimer's and dementia...

The Geriatrics for Specialty Residents Toolkit - Anesthesiology

The Geriatrics for Specialty Residents Toolkit: Anesthesiology is an online resource developed to promote awareness and assist healthcare providers dedicated to the relieve of pain and to the total care of the older surgical patient....

The Geriatrics for Specialty Residents Toolkit: Emergency Medicine

The Geriatrics for Specialty Residents Toolkit: Emergency Medicine is an online resource developed to promote awareness and assist healthcare providers dedicated to the relieve of pain and to the emergency care of the older patient....

The Geriatrics for Specialty Residents Toolkit - General Surgery

The Geriatrics for Specialty Residents General Surgery Toolkit is a compendium of geriatrics education tools and resources that address unique issues involved in general surgery involving older adults....

The Geriatrics for Specialty Residents Toolkit: Gynecology-Urology

The Geriatrics-for-Specialists Initiative (GSI) is a multi-specialty effort to improve the quality and safety of care provided to hospitalized older adults through education and research programs....

The Geriatrics for Specialty Residents Toolkit: Ophthalmology

The Geriatrics-for-Specialists Initiative (GSI) is a multi-specialty effort to improve the quality and safety of care provided to hospitalized older adults through education and research programs....

The Geriatrics for Specialty Residents Toolkit: Orthopedic Surgery

The Geriatrics-for-Specialists Initiative (GSI) is a multi-specialty effort to improve the quality and safety of care provided to hospitalized older adults through education and research programs....

The Geriatrics for Specialty Residents Toolkit: Otolaryngology

The Geriatrics for Specialty Residents Toolkit: Otolaryngology is an online resource developed to promote awareness and assist healthcare providers dedicated to the relieve of pain and to the otolaryngological care of the older patient....

The Geriatrics for Specialty Residents Toolkit: Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

The Geriatrics-for-Specialists Initiative (GSI) is a multi-specialty effort to improve the quality and safety of care provided to hospitalized older adults through education and research programs....

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society is a comprehensive and reliable source of monthly research and information about common diseases and disorders of older adults....

Geriatric Nursing

Geriatric Nursing is a comprehensive source for clinical information and management advice relating to the care of older adults....

Journal of Gerontological Nursing

The Journal of Gerontological Nursing is a monthly, peer-reviewed publication of clinically relevant original articles....

AGS Beers Criteria® for Potentially Inappropriate Medications for Older Adults Mobile App

Based on the 2023 Updated AGS Beers Criteria® for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults, The AGS Beers Criteria® mobile app helps clinicians implement prescribing recommendations based on a compendium of medications potentially to avoid or consider with caution because they often present an unfavorable balance…...

GRS11 Mobile App

The GRS11 Mobile App is free to those who purchase an individual GRS11 subscription and contains all GRS11 content....

Geriatrics At Your Fingertips® 2024 - Mobile App

Take Geriatrics At Your Fingertips® (GAYF) on the go! This annually updated reference provides quick, easy access to the specific information clinicians need to care for older adults. With expanded content, over 100 tables, and calculators for commonly used formulas, this mobile app contains the same content as GAYF 2024....

GRS11 Flashcards App

Available exclusively to those who purchase the GRS11 Digital Complete or GRS11 Digital Complete Plus Print, the GRS11 Flashcard app offers over 850 digital flashcards that can be used as a study tool to help prepare for the Geriatric Medicine Board Exam....

Safe Older Drivers - Mobile App

This app is designed to help health care practitioners prevent motor vehicle crashes and injury to older adults. Motor vehicle injuries are the leading cause of injury-related deaths among 65-74 year olds and second leading among 75-84 year olds. By adopting preventative practices - such as the strategies outlined in this app - clinicians can bett

AGS Stickers - Mobile App

Be #AGSProud with this new sticker pack from the American Geriatrics Society. With 39 character variations, use the one that best represents you! ...

iGeriatrics-Mobile App

iGeriatrics combines the American Geriatrics Society's clinical information offerings in to one easy to use application....

AGS Geriatrics Evaluation and Management Tools (GEMS) App

The AGS Geriatrics Evaluation & Management Tools (GEMS) App provides guidance to clinicians and trainees who are caring for older adults. Over 20 clinical topics are covered following a History & Physical (H&P) format.

GWEP-CC Age-Friendly Health Systems Case Studies

The GWEP-CC Age-Friendly Health Systems Case Studies present a broad range of cases drawn by Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Programs (GWEPs) and their primary care partners to take learners through their experiences implementing the 4Ms....

GWEP-CC Sustainability Case Studies

The Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program Coordinating Center’s (GWEP-CC) Sustainability Case Study Series presents business cases from the GWEPs that focus on sustainability, communication, and messaging about their GWEP grants....

AGS Cognitive Screening Toolkit

The AGS Cognitive Screening Toolkit provides information about and links to free open access cognitive screening tests that are recommended by the USPSTF. The toolkit can serve as a resource for clinicians to better understand cognitive screening tools, which have been validated in primary care settings and are available for free....

Virtual Interviewing Toolkit

This toolkit was developed from the ADGAP Fellowship Director Preconference Session held on May 12, 2021. During the session, Fellowship Directors met in virtual groups to discuss the positives and negatives of virtual interviewing, and suggested solutions to address the negatives....

AGS Age-Friendly Resource Library

The AGS Age-Friendly Resource Library provides resources based on the 4Ms framework of an Age-Friendly Health System from the IHI, AGS, and HiAF. These resources focus on aspects of the 4Ms Framework....

Burnout Resiliency Toolkit

The AGS/ADGAP Burnout and Resiliency Toolkit, developed by the AGS/ADGAP Education Committee’s Faculty Development Subcommittee, is a compendium of articles and tools meant to offer guidance on maintaining resiliency and avoiding burnout across multiple settings and targeted at multiple audiences....

Faculty Development Feedback Toolkit

The Faculty Development Feedback Toolkit, developed by the AGS/ADGAP Education Committee, is a compendium of articles and tools meant to offer guidance on conveying performance feedback to learners across multiple settings....

AGS/ADGAP COVID-19 Educational Toolkit

The AGS/ADGAP COVID-19 Educational Toolkit is a compendium of resources created by AGS and ADGAP members and available to all members. The toolkit includes a variety of teaching tools and resources intended to help providers care for older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. All educational tools are organized by their intended setting....

ADGAP Fellowship Assessment Toolkit

The Fellowship Assessment Toolkit provides case-based education and training resources to ADGAP Level 1 members. In this resource there are 48 tools designed to facilitate the development of leadership skills among academic geriatricians....

Multimorbidity Toolkit

The Multimorbidity Toolkit is a free compendium of geriatrics education tools and resources that address unique issues involved in managing multimorbidity issues in older adults. ...

Chief Resident Immersion Training Toolkit

This toolkit is developed to help institutions implement the Chief Resident Immersion Training in the Care of Older Adults (CRIT) program. The materials included here are to be used as models for adaptation based on your institution’s individualized needs....

AGS Deprescribing Toolkit

This toolkit provides guidance for discontinuing unnecessary and potentially harmful medications...

Aquifer Geriatrics

The AGS National Online Curriculum for Medical and Health Professions Students. The 26 virtual patient cases in Aquifer Geriatrics (formerly web-GEMs) were created for educators, by educators as the AGS National Online Curriculum for medical and health professions students. The course content is designed to teach clinical reasoning skills through ...

AGS Geriatrics Virtual Patient Cases for Surgical and Related Medical Subspecialty Care of Older Adults

The AGS Geriatrics Virtual Patient Cases for Surgical and Related Medical Subspecialty Care of Older Adults are online again, with cases being released on a rolling basis....

Ageism: Uncovering the Invisible “-ism”

Join Drs. Timothy Farrell and Joseph Nnodim in a moderated discussion with Dr. Annie Medina-Walpole, exploring the pervasive issue of ageism....

AGS/ADGAP Leadership Program

The AGS/ADGAP Leadership & Life Skills Curriculum (LLSC), available for free exclusively to AGS Fellows-in-Training and Early Career Professional members, focuses on a broad range of practical leadership, life and career related knowledge and skills needed throughout one's career....

AGS/AGING LEARNING Collaborative: Multiple Chronic Conditions Research

The AGS/AGING LEARNING Collaborative Multiple Chronic Conditions (MCCs) Research Core Curriculum is a free self-directed learning curriculum focused on the science of MCCs for emerging clinician and translational investigators who seek to include older adults with MCCs in their study populations....

AGS Older Adults Vaccine Initiative

The AGS Older Adults Vaccine Initiative website (vaccines.agscocare.org) offers free access to a comprehensive suite of resources for geriatrics health professionals seeking to enhance immunization in their practice, including the AGS online curriculum on Vaccines in Older Adul...

AGS CoCare^®: HELP

The AGS CoCare®: HELP program, formerly known as The Hospital Elder Life Program, is a well-studied, effective, and innovative model of hospital care designed to prevent both delirium and functional decline....

AGS CoCare^®: Ortho

AGS CoCare®: Ortho is a Geriatrics-Orthopedics Co-Management model in which geriatrics professionals, or specially trained geriatrics co-managers (e.g., hospitalists), work with orthopedic surgeons to coordinate and improve the perioperative care of older adults with hip fractures. ...

Geriatrics Review Syllabus, 11th Edition, Audio Companion

Oakstone CME’s GRS11 Audio Companion brings you engaging, informative discussions with GRS chapter authors and experts. These 30-minute sessions are based on GRS content and cover the latest developments and prevailing evaluation and management strategies in geriatric medicine. ...

Fall Respiratory Virus Season and HHS Education Campaign Risk Less. Do More.

This webinar introduces participants to the HHS Risk Less. Do More. public education campaign, as well as discusses vaccine hesitancy and strategies to combat it. Kelly Langford, the Online Communications Director for the U.S....

Intersection of Structural Racism and Ageism

Dr. Farrell and Dr. Rhodes discuss the AGS Intersection of Structural Racism and Ageism (ISR&A) Initiative, and the continued efforts being made to achieve equity in health care for older adults and their caregivers....

Coding Changes for 2024: Focus on New Codes for Geriatrics

The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Rule, which took effect on January 1, includes a number of coding changes of interest for geriatrics health professionals. This webinar reviews changes finalized for 2024, including implementation of a separate add-on code for visit complexity, G2211, that will better recognize the resource costs associated ...

Geriatric Models of Care Collaborative Webinar: ACE Units in the US and Disseminating a Successful Dementia Care Program

September 2022 highlights from the Geriatric Models of Care Collaborative quarterly webinar, hosted by Aurora Health with AGS’ Acute Care SIG and AGS CPMC Committee. Webinars feature care models addressing practice gaps....

Geriatric Models of Care Collaborative Webinar: Emergency Department based Interdisciplinary Elder Abuse Program

December 2022 highlights from the Geriatric Models of Care Collaborative quarterly webinar, hosted by Aurora Health with AGS' Acute Care SIG and AGS CPMC Committee. Webinars feature care models addressing practice gaps....

Geriatric Models of Care Collaborative Webinar: Telemedicine Program for Older Cancer Patients and TARGET-EFT Randomized Control Trial

March 2023 highlights from the Geriatric Models of Care Collaborative quarterly webinar, hosted by Aurora Health with AGS' Acute Care SIG and AGS CPMC Committee. Webinars feature care models addressing practice gaps....

Geriatric Models of Care Collaborative Webinar: The History of GEM

June 2023 highlights from the Geriatric Models of Care Collaborative quarterly webinar, hosted by Aurora Health with AGS’ Acute Care SIG and AGS CPMC Committee. Webinars feature care models addressing practice gaps....

Geriatrics and the Changing Landscape of Healthcare: Webinar #3

The 2022-2023 AGS Changing Landscape of Healthcare webinar series includes three webinars, providing an overview of the changing health care environment in ways that impact care for older adults, including geriatrics care and payment models. ...

AGS22 Symposia Recording: Vaccination in Older Adults

This session, Vaccination in Older Adults, was presented at the 2022 AGS Annual Scientific Meeting. It is focused on vaccinations among older adults and included presentations on the current state of vaccinations, roadblocks to increasing vaccinations, and the opportunity geriatrics health professionals have to improve immunization rates....

Geriatrics and the Changing Landscape of Healthcare: Webinar #1

The AGS Changing Landscape of Healthcare webinar series includes three webinars, providing an overview of the changing health care environment in ways that impact care for older adults, including geriatrics care and payment models....

Get Your GACA On: Advice from Former GACAs on How to Write a Successful Application

Applying for a Geriatrics Academic Career Award (GACA) and seeking advice from former recipients on writing a successful application? Watch this interactive webinar hosted by AGS & ADGAP....

Geriatric Models of Care Collaborative Webinar: Wisconsin Alzheimer's Institute Model to Disseminate Memory Care

The Geriatric Models of Care Collaborative meetings are quarterly webinars, hosted by Aurora Health in collaboration with the AGS' Acute Care Special Interest Group and the AGS Clinical Practice and Models of Care Committee, that feature recent papers on geriatrics models in JAGS and/or unpublished geriatric care models which a...

Geriatrics and the Changing Landscape of Healthcare: Webinar #2

The 2022-2023 AGS Changing Landscape of Healthcare webinar series includes three webinars, providing an overview of the changing health care environment in ways that impact care for older adults, including geriatrics care and payment models....

Geriatric Models of Care Collaborative Webinar: Geriatric Home-Based Rehab and Georgia Memory Net

The Geriatric Models of Care Collaborative meetings are quarterly webinars, hosted by Aurora Health in collaboration with the AGS Acute Care Special Interest Group and the AGS Clinical Practice and Models of Care Committee, that feature recent papers on geriatrics models ...

Geriatric Models of Care Collaborative Webinar: CAPABLE Program and LEAP Study

Featuring “CAPABLE Program Improves Disability in Multiple Randomized Trials” and “The Leveraging Exercise to Age in Place (LEAP) Study: Engaging Older Adults in Community-Based Exercise Classes to Impact Loneliness and Social Isolation"....

Geriatric Models of Care Collaborative Webinar: QI Outcomes in Rehab Setting and Geriatric Surgery Verification Program

The Geriatric Models of Care Collaborative meetings are quarterly webinars, hosted by Aurora Health in collaboration with the AGS Acute Care Special Interest Group and the AGS Clinical Practice and Models of Care Committee, that feature recent papers on geriatrics models in JAGS and/or unpublished geriatric care models which address practice gaps....

Resource Allocation Strategies and Age-Related Considerations in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond

The COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented pressure on health care, raising the pressing question of how society should allocate scarce resources during a crisis....

Racism in the Workplace - A Reflection on Patient Bias by Frontline Workers

The third in a series of AGS webinars, this 90-minute session discusses the impact of patients' biases on healthcare professionals...

COVID-19 and Financial Relief for Clinicians

This webinar, recorded on April 23, 2020, covers financial programs and provisions for clinicians related to COVID-19. The webinar is presented by AGS consultants with the firm of Arnold & Porter, with expertise in health care, tax, and finance...

Building a Robust Mentorship Team when Applying for Funding in Aging

In this webinar, previous GEMSSTAR scholars provide strategies for using time efficiently with a mentor and tips to build a robust aging-focused mentorship team....

COVID-19 and Updates to Telehealth

The American Geriatrics Society hosted a webinar in April 2020 presented by AGS' CPT Advisor and coding expert Dr. Robert Zorowitz, covering updates to Medicare coverage and payment for telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic. This webinar reviews major changes impacting geriatrics healthcare professionals as of April 7, 2020....

How to Write a Research Abstract that Will be Accepted for Presentation

In October 2017, the American Geriatrics Society hosted a webinar on preparing and writing abstracts for presentation at the AGS 2018 Annual Scientific Meeting. Led by Drs. Camille P. Vaughan (Abstract Selection Committee member) and Cathleen Colon-Emeric (Abstract Selection Committee member & Abstract Review Category Chair)......

So You’re Applying for a GEMSSTAR – Part II

A follow-up to the first webinar held in October 2020, this workshop provides an overview of the NIA, updates on GEMSSTAR, Clin-STAR, tips for crafting a professional development plan, and specific aims. ...

So you got your study section summary sheet, now what? Tips and Tricks for Reviewing and Responding to Grant Review Comments

The first in a three-part series geared toward early career investigators and available to all, this workshop featured discussions on how to approach a summary statement and think about the response....

AGS-AGING Initiative Webinar: Decision Making for Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions

This webinar is based on the Multiple Chronic Condition Action Steps developed by the American Geriatrics Society. This presentation is based on actual encounters between patients and clinicians and is designed to model and teach the knowledge and skills needed to participate in this approach to decision-making and care. ...

The CDC Nursing Home COVID-19 Immunization Initiative: An Amazing Success Story

This webinar discusses the massive effort and success story of the CDC in immunizing nursing home and long-term care facility residents against COVID-19 following vaccine approval in the United States....

Racial Bias in 2020: Raising Awareness and Positive Action

The AGS Ethics Committee hosted a webinar featuring a panel of AGS members discussing how geriatrics health professionals can (a) understand implicit and structural racism and (b) work to overcome the barriers that these create, in order to build partnerships with patients from different cultural, racial, and ethnic backgrounds....

So You’re Applying for a GEMSSTAR: AGS/AFAR ClinSTAR CC/NIA Virtual Workshop with NIA Staff

Geared toward early career investigators, this workshop featured talks from NIA leaders who provided an overview of the NIA and an introduction to the NIH grant process. Topics were focused specifically for those applying for a GEMSSTAR Award, but relevant to all early career investigators who are applying for funding including: grant-writing, the...

Practical Solutions Using Telehealth for Older Adults in Community Based and Outpatient Settings

This webinar focuses on practical suggestions and strategies for utilizing telehealth platforms in the home and ambulatory settings. Principles of triage, pre-screening for scheduled home based and ambulatory visits, and recommendations for optimizing efficient use of this modality are addressed......

Summer Leadership Webinar Series for AGS Fellows in Training: Defining Emotional Intelligence and its Importance in Leadership Development

This AGS/ADGAP webinar is the second in a series of Leadership webinars for current fellows, “Defining Emotional Intelligence and its Importance in Leadership Development.” This online program, led Mary Amory, MBA, and Dr. Lynn Flint, is free to AGS and ADGAP members. ...

Summer Leadership Webinar Series for AGS Fellows in Training: Leadership Basics: Situations and Styles of Leadership

The AGS/ADGAP webinar is the first of a series of Leadership webinars for current fellows, "Situations and Styles of Leadership." This online program, led by Helen Fernandez, MD and Greg Paulson, MD, is free to AGS and ADGAP members....

Succeeding in Aging Research During the Pandemic: a Webinar for Research Fellows and Junior Faculty

Organized by the AGS Junior Faculty Special Interest Group, this webinar discussed navigating the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on research, funding, finding a job, hiring staff, and general productivity. Moderators addressed pressing questions from junior faculty and how to navigate conducting research during the pandemic....

Special Topic Bundle: COVID-19

Explore the AGS's current resources on COVID-19, focusing on issues important to clinicians and administrators practicing during the COVID-19 pandemic....

Special Topic Bundle: Telehealth

This bundle contains the AGS's resources relevant to telehealth, with a particular focus on the use of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic....

Special Topic Bundle: Safe Older Drivers

This bundle brings together 4 products developed through a cooperative agreement between AGS and the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)...

AGS Advancing Geriatrics in Surgical & Medical Specialties

The mission of the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) is to improve the health, independence, and quality of life of all older people. We see improving the skills and competence of the healthcare workforce as integral to our mission. To that end, we have been working with The John A. Hartford Foundation (JAHF) since 1994, with a particular focus on ...