WCM Geriatrics & Palliative Medicine

Resources alert! 🚨

The CREATE team offers validated instruments to assess tech proficiency in older adults:

📱 Mobile Device (MDPQ)
💻 Computer (CPQ)
🏥 Medicare Proficiency
🌐 Wireless Network

Available in multiple languages! 🌍

Check them out: create-center.org/resources/in...

#AgeTech

We’re ready for day 2 at #hapc26!

The impact of digital reverse mentoring on older adults’ digital literacy: mediating roles of self-perceptions of aging and self-efficacy AbstractBackground and Objectives. Digital literacy is critical for older adults to maintain social connections, access information, and support overall me

A recent study using our Mobile Device Proficiency Questionnaire showed that intergenerational mentoring from younger adults is associated with higher technology proficiency in older adults. Check out the paper here: academic.oup.com/innovateage/...
#DigitalInclusion #Gerontology #AgeTech

We’re in San Diego for #hapc26! Check out some of our posters at the opening reception:

Live in Brooklyn! The Elder Abuse Helpline for Concerned Persons is free and confidential across New York State: elderabuse.weill.cornell.edu

Designing Robots to Improve Quality of Life for Older Adults With adults over sixty becoming an ever-increasing proportion of the global population, the challenge of accommodating the needs, preferences, and abilities, of this heterogeneous population has incre...

New book for designers & gerontologists! "Designing Robots to Improve Quality of Life for Older Adults" provides actionable guidance on how to design tech to support autonomy as people age.
#HRI #Aging #Design #Robotics
Save 20% with code 25AFLY4 here: www.routledge.com/Designing-Ro...

From Interval to Image: Carson, Mann, and the Art of Clinical Reasoning - S Y N A P S I S In attempting to explain how physicians in my field of geriatric medicine think through clinical cases, I have come to realize over the course of my training that, although the prevailing schemas of c...

Grateful to share my first piece published in Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal, (@synapsisjournal.bsky.social) "From Interval to Image: Carson, Mann, and the Art of Clinical Reasoning" medicalhealthhumanities.com/2026/01/20/f...

CREATE PI Dr. Czaja presented a keynote address on The Role  of Technology in Supporting Aging in Place Conference on Aging in Place at the University of Bergamo,  Bergamo Italy.

You should act your age – at least when it comes to exercise. Here’s why Adapting your fitness routine to your physical realities can help prevent injury from over-exercising

"Our muscle mass and our performance peak in our mid-30s and start to naturally decline after that. We need to change our expectations and we need to change how we exercise as we get older.” -Dr. Emily Finkelstein
www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

Congratulations to our incredible Advanced Practice Providers, and to Palliative Care PA Tanya Uhlmann for receiving the PA Award in Teamwork! @weillcornell.bsky.social

Training and Practice Gaps in Nursing Home Palliative Care: A Cross‐Sectional Study Background Palliative care needs are prevalent among nursing home (NH) residents. However, access to and integration of palliative care services remain limited. NHs often rely on a workforce with va...

More work with @pallipsych.bsky.social is out today! We asked nursing home staff about their perceptions of palliative care, their engagement with advance cafe planning and which components of pall care are most valuable to them. doi.org/10.1111/jgs....

🧠 Join us Sept 30, 11AM–1:30PM EDT for “Aging, Technology & Decision Making” — a free virtual event on AI & decision tools for older adults, featuring CREATE PI Dr. Wally Boot.
🔗 Register: bit.ly/agingtech2025
#GSA #AgingTech #Gerontology

And that's a wrap!🎉 Our 2025 GPS Scholars, Shanyna, Lucas, Emily, Andrea, Sydney, and Robert (not pictured), showcased their final presentations. We are so proud of these future leaders in #GeriPal!

📢 CREATE PI Wally Boot talks with The New York Times about whether emerging tech can boost cognitive abilities in older adults! 💻🧠

America's oldest workers can't retire. Here's how they're getting by. For America's oldest workers, retirement isn't possible. Workers in their 80s live paycheck to paycheck, use Social Security, and dip into savings.

Many older Americans are drawn to meaningful social engagement, even amid financial hardship. -Dr. Karl Pillemer via @businessinsider.com www.businessinsider.com/working-at-8...

How Older People Are Reaping Brain Benefits From New Tech

Older adults are "having to adapt to a rapidly changing technological environment." Dr. Walter Boot comments on cognitive effects and what to expect: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/h...

"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...

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...

Our new Program for the Study and Support of Caregivers will train both family and professional caregivers, while better integrating them into the practice of medicine.
@weillcornell.bsky.social
impact.weill.cornell.edu/summer-2025/...

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-...

📰 '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.

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

Pennsylvania officials work to prevent elder abuse (WHTM) — Pennsylvania officials are looking at better ways to prevent elder abuse in the state. The PA Department of Aging held a learning session with area agencies on aging to see how multidisciplin...

Our Division is partnering with the PA Department of Aging to prevent elder abuse across the state of Pennsylvania: www.yahoo.com/news/pennsyl...

Congratulations to our graduating #PalliativeCare fellows! #hpmClassOf25 🎉

Congratulations to our graduating Class of 2025 #Geriatrics Fellows!! 🥳
We are so so proud of you!
www.instagram.com/p/DLaVwSFOeV...

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

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

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!

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! 🇺🇸🤝🇩🇪

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...