Improving Clinical Care and Prevention through Geriatrics Research
Since 2004, the AGS has convened scientific conferences focused on emerging issues in aging research thanks to sustained funding from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) under the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Conference Grant (or "R13") Program. The AGS goal for this series is to focus attention on geriatrics issues that are of pressing clinical concern where research has the potential to improve clinical care of older adults or prevent/delay onset of disease. Our long-range goal is to advance research that improves our health, quality of life, and supports our remaining independent as we age. Conferences have addressed urinary incontinence (2016), sleep and circadian rhythms (2015) and delirium (2014).
Current Series:
In 2021, the NIA awarded AGS over $173,000 in funding over five years that will support three additional conferences that will focus resilience - or how aging affects older adults' health to varying degrees. The conference series will examine resilience through the lens of what is needed at the bedside, and address basic, clinical, and population health research to form a roadmap for resilience research.
Stress Tests And Biomarkers of Resilience (2024)
Overview of the Resilience World – State of Science (2022)
New Series:
In 2024, the NIA awarded a five-year project (1R13AG089934) to the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) and the AGING (Advancing Geriatrics Infrastructure and Network Growth) Initiative that will support three conferences focusing on Advancing the Science of Multiple Chronic Conditions (MCCs) in older adults to varying degrees. The mission of this conference grant is to deepen research efforts relating to the science of MCCs in older adults, with the potential to greatly improve the health and healthcare of the growing population of older people living with MCCs.
Past Conferences
- Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease (2021)
- Osteoporosis and Soft Tissue (Muscle/Fat) Disorders (2019)
- Sensory Impairment and Cognitive Decline (2017)
- Urinary Incontinence in the Elderly: A Translational Research Agenda for a Complex Geriatric Syndrome (2016)
- Sleep, Cicadian Rhythms, and Aging: New Avenues for Improving Brain Health, Physical Health and Functioning (2015)
- Delirium in Older Adults: Finding Order in the Disorder (2014)
- Comparative Effectiveness Research Conference (2010)
- Inflammation and Nutrient Metabolism Conference (2009)
- Idiopathic Fatigue of Aging (2008)
- Thinking, Moving and Feeling: Common Underlying Mechanisms? (2007)
- Does Mental and Physical Activity Promote Cognitive Vitality in Late Life? (2006)
- Comorbid Disease and Multiple Morbidity in an Aging Society (2005)
- Frailty in Older Adults: Towards a Better Understanding of Physiology and Etiology (2004)