"Caregivers often neglect their own health, their own well-being and their own needs" -Dr. Catherine Riffin
Read more: geriatrics-palliative.weill.cornell.edu/about-us/new...
22.07.2025 16:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Free public webinar: Join me and art therapist Joshua Brancheau to learn about #ArtTherapy (and participate in an arts-based activity!) events.weill.cornell.edu/event/transf...
15.07.2025 16:40 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Integrate Medical Humanities into Palliative Care - CAPC - Blog
Discover how medical humanities interventions—like poetry, art, and music—can strengthen your palliative care practice, support your team, and improve patient care.
Medical humanities programs have the ability to attract diverse interest, unlocking non-verbal communication and tapping into the power of symbolism/metaphor, as well as opportunities for community-building. #MedHum #hapc www.capc.org/blog/how-to-...
12.07.2025 21:02 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
📰 'How to Integrate Medical Humanities into Your Palliative Care Practice' by Ian B. Kwok, MD; J. Redwing Keyssar, RN; Gayle Kojimoto, BA; and Michael W. Rabow, MD, FAAHPM
🔗 ow.ly/KaPa50WmBfu
Learn how integrating medical humanities can strengthen your palliative care practice and more.
09.07.2025 14:35 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Join the CREATE team at #APA2025 for a powerful Skill Building Session!
The Conduct of Technology-Behavioral Interventions with Older Adult Populations
📅 Aug 8, 2025
🕦 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
📍 Colorado Convention Center, Room 111
🎓 Co-sponsored by Divisions 20 & 21
01.07.2025 15:03 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations to our graduating #PalliativeCare fellows! #hpmClassOf25 🎉
30.06.2025 19:26 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations to our graduating Class of 2025 #Geriatrics Fellows!! 🥳
We are so so proud of you!
www.instagram.com/p/DLaVwSFOeV...
28.06.2025 12:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today, Wally Boot shares CREATE’s latest work using large language models as search and decision-making tools to support older adults at UPenn’s Summer Innovation Institute!🔍🤖 Focus: Collaborative Design & Co-Creation for Health Equity #AI #HealthEquity #Innovation #LLM #AgeTech
24.06.2025 09:52 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Today is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day! #WEAAD
The Center on Elder Abuse Solutions acknowledges the devastation and loss to individuals, families, and society when an older adult is affected by #elderabuse. Older adults deserve to live without fear and harm. elderabuse.weill.cornell.edu/home
15.06.2025 22:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This Sunday 6/15 is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day #WEAAD - an internationally recognized day to acknowledge and understand #elderabuse and its implications for older adults around the world.
Over the next few days, follow us for more updates and tips on this important issue!
12.06.2025 15:32 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The CREATE team is enjoying a vibrant exchange of ideas and research with the Smart Age team in Heidelberg, Germany. This is bidirectional collaboration at its best! 🇺🇸🤝🇩🇪
12.06.2025 11:19 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Dr. Mark Lachs: "Beauty is profound, and beauty is however you define it... changing throughout life." at @nytimes.com Well Festival youtube.com/watch?v=4hUQ...
11.06.2025 18:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The reality of AI's promise to curb older adults' loneliness
Can an AI chatbot help older adults feel less lonely?
🚨 New in Fortune 🚨 CREATE PI Wally Boot discusses the promise and the peril of using AI to combat loneliness in older adults. Can machines really offer social support, or are we missing something human?
Read more: fortune.com/well/2025/05...
04.06.2025 16:22 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Essay | Americans in Their 80s and 90s Are Redefining Old Age
Dementia rates are down, recovery rates are up. Many are thriving mentally and physically deep into their later years.
Although more older Americans are living with chronic disease, statistics say little about the quality of their lives: “You can’t tell if they are living in a nursing home or CEO of a Fortune 500 company.” -Dr. Mark Lachs via @wsj.com www.wsj.com/health/welln...
17.05.2025 14:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
🚨 New in Journal of Applied Gerontology 🚨
Think you know Medicare? 🧠💥
Check out the new Medicare Proficiency Questionnaire —a short, reliable, and validated quiz to assess Medicare know-how!
Perfect for advisors, researchers, even AI benchmarking. 👇
doi.org/10.1177/0733... #Medicare #Gerontology
15.05.2025 13:07 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Join ROAR Forward and Dr. Catherine Riffin for a Virtual Conversation on #Caregiving on June 17th: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
15.05.2025 15:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It's the last day of #AGS25 - thank you for joining and connecting with us! #gerisky
10.05.2025 14:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dr. @alexjordanmd.bsky.social presents “Opioid Prescribing and Risk in Older Adults with Serious Illness: A Nationwide Clinician Survey” #AGS25
09.05.2025 19:57 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
It's Day 2 at #AGS25 and we're excited for today's presentations by our colleagues and student scholars! #GeriSky
09.05.2025 12:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
We're getting started at #AGS25! #WeAreGeriatrics #GeriSky
08.05.2025 13:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our #geriatrics fellows have arrived at #AGS25 in Chicago, IL!
07.05.2025 21:51 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you to our incredible nurses and nurse practitioners! #NationalNursesWeek #NursesWeek2025
07.05.2025 20:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Well Festival - The New York Times Events
Join Nia Long, Jennifer Palmer, Paulina Porizkov, and Dr. Mark Lachs in Brooklyn on 5/7 for @nytimes.com Well Festival www.nytimes.com/events/wellf...
05.05.2025 18:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dr. Mark Lachs joins Dr. Chelsea Clinton and former President Bill Clinton on this Blooming Day: "Navigating Change with Confidence: The Future of Social Care"
02.05.2025 13:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just published by @weillcornell.bsky.social post-doc Dr. Shelbie Turner and TRIPLL summer intern Aryn Lee:
"Prescription Pain Medication Misuse Among Family #Caregivers: A Call to Action"
academic.oup.com/gerontologis...
18.04.2025 18:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
MedPeds PGY3 @UTHouston | Ex-🪖☣️☢️ | 🔜 #Geri #HPM doctor | Passions: philosophy, history, clinical reasoning, scientific realism, & systemism | Advocate: #MedEd reform, global humanitarian/disaster response, 🏳️🌈, & humanism | Pursue truth, alleviate suffering.
Geriatrician keeping it old school. 👵
Also created a course to help Type A brains chill out.
🧠 https://stress-freeproductivity.thinkific.com/products/courses/stress-free-productivity
I am a proud parent and partner, (not a proud boy), LGBTQI ally, and happy person-interested in keeping democracy thriving.
Geriatrics & Gerontology at the World Health Organization
Aging (Ageing) • Frailty (Intrinsic Capacity) • Public Health • Integrated care (Long-term care) • Geriatria • AS Roma • SPQR • MedSky
Posts are mine
Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@macesari
T32 Aging Research Fellow @UCSFGeriatrics • Geriatrician • Pal Care physician • Visual storyteller • Passionate about improving the care of older adults and their care partners affected by serious illnesses
Geriatrician with too many art supplies. Medical Director at On Lok PACE and Associate Professor at UCSF Geriatrics. All views are my own.
Palliative medicine physician in San Diego. Passionate about #hapc (#hospice and #palliative care), #meded, & increased access to health care.
Geriatrician, Hospice & Palliative care Physician, mom, working to #changemeded, all views my own
Premier journal for geriatrics clinical science, innovative models of care, and health policy that impacts geriatrics professionals and those they serve.
Supporting research on #deprescribing to improve medication use and outcomes among older adults.
Chief of #Geriatrics @UCSF
Geriatrician, researcher, passionate about improving well being and quality of life for older persons
Social scientist | how to make end-of-life less terrible | hospice, pal care & home care for older adults with serious illnesses, dementia | policy & aging research at UCSF | All views my own
https://profiles.ucsf.edu/krista.harrison
#Geriatrics Division, University of California, San Francisco
@UCSF | Improving the lives of #olderadults through teaching, discovery, and the care of patients
At the University of California San Diego, we have the best of both worlds — fantastic physicians trained to provide comprehensive care to older adults and researchers developing a greater understanding of the aging process and how we can optimize our late
Academic geriatrician at the University of Michigan - Go Blue! Fellowship program director, clinical assistant professor, GACA awardee, interested in medical education, dementia care, surrogate decision-making, and (avoiding inappropriate) guardianship.
Geriatrician+Hospitalist @ UW Madison | Geri Fellowship APD | passionate about older adults, HIV care, QI, and communication | cat mom | views my own
Physician. Internal Medicine and Geriatrics. Clinical educator. Trail runner. Avid Reader. Dog lover. Live music enthusiast. Chaser of big ideas and beautiful things. she/her. Kansas City.
The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) is dedicated to increasing quality, equitable #palliative care services for people living with a serious illness.
Geriatrician. HIV Specialist. NIH funded researcher. Concerned citizen. Views are my own.
