Innovations and Controversy: Updates in Geriatrics

As the “Baby Boomer” generation ages, new innovations and controversies emerge regularly: everything from the use of cannabis for older adults, to the role of hugely expensive and marginally effective treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease, to the complexities of advanced care planning. Anna Chodos and Alex Smith from the UCSF Division of Geriatrics will walk us through the latest innovations and controversies facing our aging population and those who care for them.

Speakers:
Anna Chodos, MD, MPH, is associate professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at ZSFG and the Division of Geriatrics at UCSF Health. She is the principal investigator of Dementia Care Aware, a state-wide program to improve detection of dementia in older adults who have Medi-Cal benefits. She is also co-principal investigator of the Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program, which trains providers in geriatrics principles. Finally, she directs Whole Person Geriatrics for the San Francisco Health Network, as well as the outpatient Geriatrics Consult Service and the Geriatrics-Neurology Cognitive Clinic at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.

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Program
Lekshmi Santhosh: Introduction
00:02:08-00:25:43 – Alexander Smith, MD, MPH, MS, professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatrics at the SFVAHCS
00:25:45-00:45:22 – Anna Chodos, MD, MPH, associate professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at ZSFG and the Division of Geriatrics at UCSF Health
00:45:30-00:47:15 – Alexander Smith, MD, MPH, MS, professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatrics at the SFVAHCS
00:47:30-00:52:27 – Anna Chodos, MD, MPH, associate professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at ZSFG and the Division of Geriatrics at UCSF Health
00:52:30-59:21 Q&A

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• March 2: A Fireside Chat with Eric Topol
• February 23: Protecting the Legitimacy of Medical Expertise: Combating Misinformation in Medicine
• February 16: Addressing the Crisis of Clinician Burnout — A Conversation with Tait Shanafelt

[NancySchneider-kbrp]

This whole presentation is Elderspeak. I am a cognitively intact 70 year old. How ageist is this that the entire presentation boils down to how to treat dementia…? I was hoping for current strategies for enhancing health: physical, mental, supportive care. Shall I just I did appreciate King Pharma-spot on. Also what about the study of elderly nuns who were loaded with amyloid plaques and yet no evidence of dementia?

[Cathy-xicb]

If you have not seen agism in the RESIDENTS of 55+ communities and assisted living, you need to get out of academia/hospitals more. The visibly deteriorating residents are shunned by many of the heartier residents. Their PEERS reject them. They don't need to worry about their doctors using elder speak. They do it to each other.

[CushingsSx]

“I will buy the FDA just to get my drug approved” 👌Wait; they haven’t yet?😂 Coolest presentation ever👌, I am learning a lot