Clinical and #Care Coordination Predictors of Adverse Outcomes in a Geriatric #Emergency Department

"...The existence of an established #PrimaryCare relationship significantly predicted lower in-hospital mortality..."

#Frailty #Geriatrics

https://www.jamda.com/article/S1525-8610%2826%2900117-9/fulltext

Designing Consent Processes for #Research With Older Adults Who May Lack Decisional Capacity: A Guide for Investigators

#Ethics #Geriatrics #Science #Medicine

https://agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jgs.70473?af=R

Geriatric #medicine across countries: Specialised workforce, training and system integration challenges

Overview of the current status of #GeriatricMedicine and the professional landscape of #geriatricians

#Geriatrics #Ageing #Aging #Care #MedMastodon

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https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S2260-1341(26)00021-6

Why Scotland's 400,000 unpaid #carers of working age deserve a better deal

The issue of unpaid carers is being marginalised despite its importance to Scotland’s #economy, writes Dr Louise Lawson

#Scotland #Aging #Ageing #Geriatrics #Care #Geriatrics

https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/why-scotlands-400000-unpaid-carers-of-working-age-deserve-a-better-deal-8165400

Mapping the landscape of geriatric #medicine education, training and practice in #Europe.

#Geriatrics #Ageing #Aging #MedMastodon

https://academic.oup.com/ageing/article/55/4/afag092/8654430?login=false

"Learn how adjusting your thoughts can change your health—from the “mother of mindfulness” and first female tenured professor of psychology at Harvard.
...
Can changing your thoughts improve your health? We tend to live our lives as though our ailments—our stiff knees or frayed nerves or diminished eyesight—can change only in one direction: for the worse. Award-winning social psychologist Ellen J. Langer’s life’s work proves the fault in this negative outlook as well as the healing power of its alternative: mindfulness—the process of active noticing where we are not bound by past experience or conventional wisdom."

The Mindful Body
Thinking Our Way to Chronic Health
By Ellen J. Langer
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/705365/the-mindful-body-by-ellen-j-langer/

#psychology #clinicalpsychology #geriatrics #depression #health #reminiscencetherapy #mindful #book

The healing power of reminiscing
https://blogs.bcm.edu/2025/01/27/the-healing-power-of-reminiscing/

#psychology #reminiscencetherapy #geriatrics #depression #healing

Have you submitted your abstract yet?
Don't miss the chance to present your #research at the 22nd #EuGMS Congress in the beautiful city of Lille!

"Optimising Function: A Key to Healthy #Ageing".

🔗 Submit here: www.eugms2026.com

#Geriatrics #Aging #Health #Care #OlderPersons #Science #MedMastodon