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5/2/2025
Visiting DC? Please Consider Making Hill Visits
For AGS members who are visiting DC and have time, we encourage you to reach out to the AGS policy team (Anna at akim@americangeriatrics.org) for assistance with setting up hill visits with your elected officials. The best way for getting appointments with the health legislative assistants in member offices is if you email us a few weeks in advance of your visit with the date and time you are available for hill visits.
If you're joining us in Chicago next week for #AGS25, be sure to check out our late-breaking #AGS25 sessions focused on advocacy and resilience across geriatrics academic careers in this issue of AGS News.
The updated Minimum Geriatrics Competencies for Internal Medicine and Family Medicine (IM/FM) Residents are now available. Organized around the Geriatric 5Ms framework and developed by an AGS/ADGAP workgroup, these competencies outline what graduating Internal Medicine and Family Medicine residents are expected to demonstrate—within the context of a specific older adult patient scenario—often in collaboration with an interprofessional team when appropriate. You can access the updated competencies by clicking here.
Be sure to check out the following:
- Advocating for NIA in Uncertain Times (5/8; 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM)
There are many ways in which AGS and its members can educate our elected officials about the importance of federally supported research in the everyday lives of older Americans. In this session, we are focused on providing top-level framing for research that places older adults at the center of our advocacy and frames the messaging within chronic disease. Participants will be empowered to take action using the tools and messaging from this session.
- Inspiring and Sustaining an Aging Research Career through the Ups and Downs of Life (5/8; 2:45 – 3:45)
The AGS Research Committee and the Research Methods Subcommittee have coordinated this unique and timely session to facilitate an exchange of strategies among researchers in aging for maintaining resilience throughout an aging research career lifespan. This session will feature representatives from pivotal stages of training: medical school, fellowship, junior faculty, mid-career faculty, senior faculty, and retirement.
- Navigating a Geriatrics Academic Career in Uncertain Times: Resilience, Persistence, and the Value of Community (5/9; 7:00 AM – 8:30 AM)
Planned in collaboration with the Tideswell Scholars Special Interest Group, this workshop is for junior to mid-faculty career geriatricians who are pursuing careers in academic geriatrics with a focus on resilience, persistence, and the value of community in times of uncertainty. Our panelists, all Tideswell Scholars, will offer perspectives on how resilience and persistence have been critical in their academic careers and will speak to the importance of finding your people and the value of building a community.
- Download the #AGS25 app to access all your meeting information in one place. You can even add program sessions to create your own schedule.
- Access all research abstracts here.
- Ready to network? Make sure you visit these Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings.
- We can't wait to put on our dancing shoes! Join us for the dance party of the year!
Make sure to register for #AGS25 if you haven't already. On-site registration is also available.
#AGS25 attendees are encouraged to download the AGS Annual Meeting App before they get to the meeting. #AGS25 App is your one stop shop for planning for and navigating your way through the AGS Annual Meeting event.
Tap to download today on the App Store or Google Play, or scan the QR code.
With the #AGS25 App attendees can:
- Create a personal schedule with sessions of interest
- Access and download presentation slides (available once the session has started)
- Search by session or abstract title or keyword; speaker name; abstract/ paper author name, abstract number, etc.
- Read research abstracts and download the full JAGS supplement
- Locate session locations quickly with an interactive map feature by tapping room number within the app
- Review exhibitors and mark favorites
- Stay in-the-know with meeting alerts
- and much more!
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- The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute invites applications for high-quality comparative clinical effectiveness research projects with letter of intent accepted through May 13th.
- The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute is accepting letters of intent through May 13th for high-quality, patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research projects that addresses intentional trauma, unintentional trauma, or Substance Use and Trauma.
The MyAGSOnline Events Calendar is a valuable resource to discover and register for upcoming events, webinars, and other opportunities. We'd like to highlight the following upcoming event:
- COGR, on behalf of the Joint Associations Group (JAG) on Indirect Costs, will host a webinar on May 12th which will include an overview on facilities & administrative (or indirect) costs; information about the scope, structure and work of JAG and its subject matter expert group; and substantial time for audience input and Q&A. Learn more and register here.
- Bridging Care: Training Providers to Integrate Family Caregivers into the Healthcare Team webinar takes place on May 21 at 1pm ET to learn about the Caregivers As Partners in Care Teams” (CAP-CT) curriculum for healthcare providers.