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This article outlines competencies for internal medicine and family medicine residents that are unique to the care of older adult patients, feasible within the structure of current residency programs, constitute a minimum but uniform expectation for all graduating residents.

Source: Journal of Graduate Medical Education, 2010.
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This interdisciplinary team training (IDT) addresses those groups that can influence the development and expansion of academic and continuing education programs, including professional associations, credentialing and licensing bodies, accreditation organizations, and university administrators. This statement also emphasizes the urgent need for interdisciplinary teamwork as an essential educational component for all health professional trainees working with older adults.

In this Journal of Nursing Education editorial, Barbara Brandt and Amy Barton describe the impact of the National Center's "Accelerating Interprofessional Community-Based Education and Practice" Initiative and the implementation across 16 schools of nursing in the Unites States, each partnering with a community-based organization to further interprofessional initiatives designed around the needs of the patient, family, and community.

This article provides a 2019 update to the American Geriatrics Society Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults based upon a systematic review of new evidence..

This article describes two cases that illustrate delirium screening and prevention as a call to action for using the 4Ms in an age-friendly healthy system. Nonpharmacological approaches for delirium prevention and support using the 4Ms are outlined.

This systematic review examines the literature on person-centered care (PPC) for older adults between 1990 and 2014, and identifies six domains along with a list of essential elements to clarify hot to operationalize a PCC approach to health care and services for older adults.

This AGS statement provides an consensus-based definition and the essential elements of person-centered care that can be applied to caring for older adults with mulitpole chronic conditions and/or functional limitations.

This AGS position statement outlines minimum quality indicators that healtcare organizations and healthcare providers should adopt to ensure all older adults receive care that is culturally appropriate and considers level of health literacy.

This position statement outlines the vision of the AGS for the care of LGBT older adults with specific steps that can be taken to ensure that they receive the care they need.

This updated AGS position statement provides recommendations along with rationale regarding the use of tube feedings in older adults with advanced dementia.