Managing Hypercholesterolemia in Adults Older Than 75 Years Without a History of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease: An Expert Clinical Consensus from the National Lipid Association and the American Geriatrics Society

The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) partnered with the National Lipid Association (NLA) to develop a Joint Scientific Statement on Managing Hypercholesterolemia in Adults Older Than 75 Years Without a History of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease: An Expert Clinical Consensus. Published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and th...

Person-Centered Care: A Definition and Essential Elements

An expert panel convened by the American Geriatrics Society , in collaboration with the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and with support from The SCAN Foundation, released findings from a project defining “person-centered care.” Based on a comprehensive literature review and qualitative research, the panel descr...

American Geriatrics Society White Paper on Healthy Aging

“Healthy aging” sounds like a priority we all can share, but for geriatrics healthcare professionals that term represents something specific, and something worth defining....

Framework for Decision-making for Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions: Action Steps for the AGS Guiding Principles on the Care of Older Adults with Multimorbidity

The Framework for Decision-making for Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions translates The AGS Guiding Principles for the Care of Older Adults with Multimorbidity s into a framework of Actions and accompanying Action Steps for decision‐making for clinicians who provide both primary and specialty care to older people with MCCs....

Quality Improvement in Neurology: Dementia Management Quality Measures

This executive summary (full manuscript available at www.neurology.org) reports on a new measurement set for dementia management developed by an interdisciplinary Dementia Measures Work Group representing the major national organizations and advocacy organizations concerned with the care of individuals with dementia....