We're so proud of all that has been accomplished in these 5 years! Work anchored on the pillars of knowledge generation, research development, training, & community engagement. Huge thanks to the fantastic work of IMPACT's 10 cores and teams! Stay tuned for #IMPACTSC25 🧠🌎

Rise and Shine 🌞, it's Day One of #AGS24! What sessions are you looking forward to most today? Check out today's schedule at a glance to see what's on deck: ow.ly/GXaY50RAiW2

Tune in this morning at 10am EST to our #AGS24 session "De-Prescribing in Type 2 Diabetes: Who, When, Where, How, and Why" American Geriatrics Society UNC School of Medicine UNC Center for Aging & Health UNC Department of Medicine UNC Pharmacy

Fantastic work by Katie Selman, MD! agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg…

Get ready for Cynthia Boyd and Mike Steinman to kick the day off at 8:30am with a welcome address! 🎉 #USDEN24

Congratulations to UNC DPOP Ph.D. student Soroush Fariman, whose poster received a "Top 5% Poster" award at the International Society of Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research (ISPOR) conference in Atlanta!

Saw so many wonderful faces today! Thank you all for welcoming me and my camera 🙂 1) Our own Jennifer Tija UMass Chan Medical School with Jinjiao Wang Jinjiao (Jasmine) Wang URochester School of Nursing 2) Joshua Niznik, Aimee Pickering from Pitt School of Medicine Graduate Studies & Thomas Radomski Thomas Radomski from Pitt General Internal Medicine #USDEN24

Fantastic work showcasing our GWEP partnership between UNC Center for Aging & Health and UNC Emergency Medicine to reduce medication related falls risk in older adults. #aging #deprescribing UNC Department of Medicine Katie Selman, MD Martin F Casey, MD MPH

Viewpoint describes the potential consequences of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposed data access policy change for graduate students and early-career researchers. ja.ma/3Vocft6

🚨 Meta-Analysis shows medication reviews + #Deprescribing in hospital inpatients associated with an 8% reduction in hospital readmissions (statistically-significant) across studies: buff.ly/3XaiKRw American Geriatrics Society Another reason to #Deprescribe buff.ly/2pVXiz9

UNC colleagues: You won’t want to miss this great talk Thursday by Carolyn Thorpe and yours truly! #deprescribing #geriatrics UNC Department of Medicine UNC Center for Aging & Health UNC DPOP UNC Pharmacy

Tread carefully when using linked Medicare and MDS data to identify NH residents with dementia or cognitive impairment. Our recent work examines potential discordance across MDS and claims-based indicators. JAGS Carolyn Thorpe Jenny Lund agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg…

A comparison of dementia diagnoses and cognitive function measures in Medicare claims and the Minimum Data Set. #geriatrics agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg…

ICYMI: Valuable new insights published by Dr. Katie Davenport and a team of investigators: "A pharmacist-led protocol to deprescribe high-risk drugs for older adults presenting to emergency departments after falls. bit.ly/3VDcsHI

We recently welcomed our 2024 #MSTAR cohort to Chapel Hill! During this summer, these early-stage medical and osteopathic students will get experience in #aging-related research and #geriatrics. Learn more about the UNC MSTAR program: med.unc.edu/aging/mstar/

Hospitals feel effects of an aging NC population wral.com/story/hospital…

Hot off the press! IMPACT + Alzheimer's Association 2023-24 Lived Experience Panel report highlighting discussions on healthcare goals and decisions that matter most to people living w/ dementia and their families. 🎯 bit.ly/IMPACTLEP_GCCa…

A series of discussions with people living with dementia, researchers & others highlights the need to ensure people with dementia are actively engaged in decision-making & to measure how their needs & priorities are being met. The findings are in a new IMPACT Collaboratory report. 1/

Why Do We (and Still Do!) Need the National Institute on Aging jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

1/n Our deprescribing.org team gets asked about statins A LOT We did a systematic review on statin discontinuation which came out last month in JAGS Join me for few take-aways 👇 #deprescribing #CardioTwitter agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg…