Program for Friday May 01, 2026

Sponsored by the Teachers Section and the Education Committee   

Moderator: TBD

This session presents a forum for teachers of geriatric education to share topics and materials of common interest, such as program development, curriculum, educational process and research in teaching and evaluation. Learning Objective: (1) describe and exchange geriatric education and teaching materials.

Sponsored by the Geriatric Academic Career Award Special Interest Group

Moderator: Susan Friedman, MD, MPH

This session introduces an integrated framework that combines the evidence-based pillars of Lifestyle Medicine with the 4Ms of age-friendly care to support healthy aging, chronic disease prevention, and patient-centered outcomes. Learning Objectives: (1) describe how lifestyle medicine interventions align with the 4Ms Framework to improve outcomes in older adults; (2) list practical strategies to incorporate this model into education, clinical workflows, or community programs; and (3) apply principles of health equity when delivering lifestyle interventions that address What Matters, Mentation, Mobility, and Medications.
 

Building the Bridge: Integrating Lifestyle Medicine and the 4Ms Framework to Advance Optimal Aging
Kristen J. Neises, APRN, FNP-C, DipACLM

Applying Practical Strategies Of Lifestyle Medicine Within a 4M Model
Kelly Freeman, MSN, AGPCNP-BC

Age-Friendly Mentation: Community-Based Strategies for Cognitive Health and Lifestyle Integration
Sam Cotton, PhD

Sponsored by the AGS Health in Aging Foundation
 

View the most current research in geriatrics. Authors will be available to discuss the presented findings and answer questions. 

Description coming soon.

Description coming soon.

Co-Chairs: Ugochi Ohuabunwa, MD & Jessica Wright, PA-C
 

The mission of this SIG is to improve outcomes for vulnerable older adults moving across different healthcare settings through the better execution of care transitions. We assemble geriatricians and other geriatrics professionals with a common interest in improving care transitions through education, quality improvement, and research. We strive to serve as a resource to develop educational sessions at AGS Annual Scientific Meetings, and serve as AGS' main forum for discussion, collaboration, and advocacy on care transitions issues.

Co-Chairs: Jeffrey D. Mariano, MD & Olga Olivares-Herrera, MD

The Ethnogeriatrics SIG is open to anyone with an interest in the relationship between aging, ethnicity, clinical practice, and research. We work to identify challenges and practical solutions to providing appropriate care to different cultures and ethnicities in our diverse country.

Co-Chairs: Mary Bonnett, MD; Emily Coskun, MD; Evan Henricks, MD; Kristen Martin, MD

The GACA SIG seeks to promote the career development and longitudinal professional growth of GACA awardees.

Chair: Sean Huang, MD

The mission of the IT Issues SIG is to establish a venue for members with an interest in Information Technology as it applies to geriatrics. We see Electronic Health Records (EHR) as a means for improving medical care by reducing error rates, improving efficiency, augmenting communication, facilitating optimal reimbursement, and decreasing expenses. We seek to provide information, support, and an organized center for coordinating information and resources to optimize the use of EHRs in senior healthcare environments like ambulatory and long-term care healthcare settings. 

Chair: Joanne Lynn, MD, MS

The mission of this SIG is to share information on the proposals, models of care, community integration collaboration networks, and politics that center on building geographic reforms across all service providers.

Co-Chairs: Christine Liu, MD, MS & Devika Nair, MD, MSC1

The mission of this SIG is to discuss the ways interdisciplinary collaboration can help older adults and their family members feel supported in the dialysis vs conservative management decision making process; to collaborate on how to create co-management geriatrics and renal subspecialty clinics; and to foster research on outcomes that affect the quality of life of older adults with kidney disease, such as falls, re-hospitalization rates, and end of life care.

Co-Chairs: Sarah Berry, MD, MPH & Cathleen Colon-Emeric, MD, MHS

The mission of this SIG is to discuss future strategies to promote improved education and care for bone loss in older adults.

Co-Chairs: Claire Davenport, MD, MS & Ardeshir Hashimi, MD

Older adults with multiple chronic conditions (MCC) receive care that is fragmented, burdensome, and most importantly is not focused on what matters most to them. There is little evidence to guide disease-specific care for people with MCC, who are generally excluded from randomized controlled trials, leading to uncertainty in decision-making for clinicians. Guideline-driven care is not always applicable to older adults with multiple chronic conditions, as it may not accrue the expected benefits and may lead to treatment burden. Most importantly, this care may not be focused on what matters most to persons with MCCs, the health outcomes they prioritize when faced with tradeoffs and the treatments they are willing and able to adhere to. This Special Interest Group aims to identify alternatives to disease guideline-based care, specifically ways to implement patient priorities aligned decision making. Patient priorities aligned decision making calls upon patients and caregivers to articulate their health priorities; communicate those priorities to all team members; patients, caregivers and clinicians then together choose the healthcare best aligned with these health priorities.

Co-Chairs: Ellen Cabb, MD & Nicole Orr, MD, FACC

The mission of this SIG is to serve as a resource and voice to the AGS, the public, healthcare practitioners, policy makers, and various educational centers regarding issues on the availability, delivery, quality and regulation of long-term care (LTC) in the U.S.