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Rotation Related Education Materials

  1. “A Pocket Guide to the AGS Beers List”

  2. A Practical Approach to Assessing and Mitigating Loneliness and Isolation in Older Adults

  3. Loneliness and Health in Older Adults

  4. Depression in End of Life

  5. Forced to Choose When Medical Policy Disrupts End of Life Care

  6. Nursing Home Culture and Staff Perspectives

  7. Rehabbed to Death

  8. Rehabbed to Death-Breaking the Cycle

Articles to Read

Current Top 10 Geriatrics Articles

  1. AGS 2023 updated AGS Beers Criteria for potentially inappropriate use in older adults

  2. Hospital-Associated Functional Decline: The Role of Hospitalization Processes Beyond Individual Risk Factors

  3. Antipsychotics for Treating Delirium in Hospitalized Adults

  4. Factors Associated with Mortality Among Homeless Older Adults in California: The HOPE HOME Study

  5. STOPP/START criteria for potentially inappropriate prescribing in older people: version 2

  6. Effect of Aspirin on Cardiovascular Events and Bleeding in the Healthy Elderly

  7. Thyroid Hormone Therapy for Older Adults with Subclinical Hypothyroidism

  8. Time to Clinical Benefit of Intensive Blood Pressure Lowering in Patients 60 Years and Older with Hypertension

  9. Time to Benefit of Bisphosphonate Therapy for the Prevention of Fractures Among Postmenopausal Women with Osteoporosis: A Meta-analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials

  10. Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission (summarized in Figure 7)

Bonus #1: Choosing Wisely: Ten Things Clinicians and Patients Should Question

Bonus #2: An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report. A Framework for Addressing Multimorbidity in Clinical Practice Guidelines for Pulmonary Disease, Critical Illness, and Sleep Disorders. Ann Am Thorac Soc 2016

“Classic” Top 10 Geriatrics Articles

  1. A Multicomponent Intervention to Prevent Delirium in Hospitalized Older Patients

  2. Trajectories of Disability in the Last Year of Life

  3. Emergency Hospitalizations for Adverse Drug Events in Older Americans

  4. A Multifactorial Intervention to Reduce the Risk of Falls Among Elderly People Living in the Community

  5. The Clinical Course of Advanced Dementia

  6. Gait speed and survival in older adults

  7. Effectiveness of Atypical Antipsychotic Drugs in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease

  8. Cancer Screening in Elderly Patients: A Framework for Individualized Decision Making

  9. Exercise Training and Nutritional Supplementation for Physical Frailty in Very Elderly People

  10. Appropriate Use of Artificial Nutrition and Hydration - Fundamental Principles and Recommendations and Tube Feeding in Patients with Advanced Dementia: A Review of the Evidence

The TEN COMMANDMENTS OF GERIATRIC CARE

Geriatric STANDARD OF CARE

Articles

Calculators

CKD-Epi 2021 - better estimate in elderly

 

Useful Websites

Deprescribing Algorithms

EPrognosis from UCSF - population-based estimates for older adults

Interactive Oregon Tai Chi resource map

 

 

Learn more

Some great resources for common geriatric issues

Approach to constipation and bowel regimens

Handout from Dr. Drago.

Guide to Geriatric Pain Management

Another great handout from Dr. Drago

Approach to diagnosing and treating delirium

PDF of Dr. Drago's powerpoint presentation at noon conference 8/15