AGS25 Session list with Credits
Target Audience
The AGS Annual Scientific Meeting is the premier educational event in geriatrics, providing the latest information on clinical care, research on aging, and innovative models of care delivery. The Annual Meeting Program Committee has worked hard to create an exciting program that will present high quality clinical and scientific content to our diverse audience. The 2025 Annual Meeting will address the educational needs of geriatrics health professionals from all professions. Physicians, nurses, pharmacists, physician assistants, social workers, long-term care and managed care providers, health care administrators, and others can update their knowledge and skills through state-of-the-art educational sessions and research presentations.
Learning Objectives
- Summarize current research findings in geriatrics and describe their relevance to the care and treatment of older adults
- Interpret information on the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of clinical disorders in older adults
- Identify prevalent psychosocial problems in older people
- Describe medical, psychological, social, and rehabilitative interventions to improve independence and quality of life of older people
- Review the problems of comorbidity, multiple morbidity, and burden of illness and their relation to normal aging, frailty, disability and adverse outcomes of care
- Teach geriatrics effectively to interprofessional healthcare providers, students, and trainees
- Identify ethical issues in healthcare delivery, medical treatment, and decision-making
- Discuss the impact of different cultural/ethnic/language backgrounds & health literacy/numeracy on the care of older adults
- Describe current health policy relating to financing and delivery of geriatric care
- Describe effective delivery of geriatric health care in acute, sub-acute, post-acute, outpatient, care transitions, long-term care, and other settings
- Analyze results of geriatric and risk assessment of older patients, specify appropriate interventions, and identify anticipated outcomes
Learning Formats
Paper Sessions: Oral presentations of research abstracts grouped around a common theme or topic.
Poster Sessions: Oral presentations of research abstracts grouped around a common theme or topic.
Pre-conference Sessions: Expanded sessions covering current topics that impact how we care for older adults.
Symposia: Typically involve 3 presentations on a subject of vital importance to a broad segment of annual meeting attendees.
Workshops: Interactive sessions that emphasize the exchange of ideas and the demonstration and application of techniques and skills. The audience size may be limited.
Accreditation
The American Geriatrics Society is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.