Maybe it’s because of my cardiac arrest, but I don’t understand why patients get upset when I say their symptoms are due to aging. 95% of what I diagnose is because we get old. I always bring it up as delicately as possible, but like do you know how lucky you are? I see patients

Most viewed in the last 7 days from JAMA Internal Medicine: Clinical Insights by Tim Anderson and @ZacharyGJacobs proposes a new framework for managing asymptomatic blood pressure elevation in the hospital setting. ja.ma/3yqQ64L

Join us tomorrow at 12 pm ET for a #NIHCM webinar examining long-term services and supports, nursing homes, and caregiving. Register today to learn from leading experts: bit.ly/3zJWSmr Independence Blue Cross Harvard Medical School NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing David Grabowski Jasmine Travers, PhD, RN, AGPCNP-BC

The founding of the National Institute on Aging 50 years ago was truly visionary. #1 goal: study biological aging. 50 years on, NIA has transformed this science fiction moon-shot into clinically-relevant reality. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

Assessing older patients for frailty enables clinicians to tailor clinical care, including decisions about stressful treatments. The authors review the assessment, pathophysiology, and management of frailty. Read the full review: nej.md/3WV9SyV

eFrailty: Making frailty assessment accessible to clinicians and researchers. #geriatrics #frailty agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg…

“Which frailty tool should I use?” To answer this common question, we are excited to introduce the product of our efforts over the past two years: eFrailty.org ! With Dae Kim VA Research VA Boston HC

eFrailty: Making frailty assessment accessible to clinicians and researchers - Kim - Journal of the American Geriatrics Society - Wiley Online Library agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg…

This stray dog who once chased the doggy daycare bus got adopted and now has his very own seat on it. 13/10

There are good arguments for removing race from medical algorithms, but there may be unintended consequences. Our PNAS paper finds that race-blind algorithms can *worsen* racial inequalities, bc they can't adjust for racial disparities in data quality. shorturl.at/7ugW5

You are invited to the Inaugural Webinar of the FSS 2024-25, Wednesday, September 11th, 2024, 12 PM ET. Dr. Dae Kim from Harvard U will present "eFrailty: Making Frailty Assessment Accessible to Clinicians and Researchers." Please REGISTER at mhs.webex.com/weblink/regist…

Frailty in Medicare Advantage and Traditional Medicare Beneficiaries jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

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New work using #NHATS by Sandra Shi et al. in JAMA Network Open: #Frailty in #Medicare Advantage #Beneficiaries and Traditional Medicare Beneficiaries pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39212986/

A JAMA article titled “The Latest Research About Paxlovid” has a surprising but very expected omission in the summary of the evidence for Paxlovid: the lack of any discussion of the negative EPIC-SR study. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… A 🧵on why we keep seeing this omission (1/10)

What does it mean when I see "Consider GOC convo, pall care consult, and DNH - Consider initiation of ACEi +/- SGLT2i " in the same discharge summary plan ???

Millions of foreigners come crushing across our borders and then...shingle my roof, make my hamburger, and care for my kids and my grandma.

Congratulations to our Age Self Care team for winning the Integrated Center for Group Medical Visits 2024 Conference Best Poster Award! Louise Aronson Wren Burton MPH, DC Ariela Orkaby MD MPH UCSF Osher Center HMS Osher Center