Resource Center

In this webinar (1:01:42 minutes) given by interprofessional geriatric experts, Drs. Ji Yoo, Jason Flatt, and Aaron Ritter, Gloria Mandel, NP, and Ceci De Asis, RN, discuss dementia care during COVID-19.

This webinar (59:18 minutes) given by Ian Choe, MD, explains how telemedicine can benefit all three major stakeholders, i.e., providers, patients, and communities in the modern health care system. (Presentation begins at 7:10 minutes).

This GSA webinar organized by the Sloan Research Network on Aging and Work features Dr. Jacquelyn B. James (Boston College) and Dr. Kendra Jason (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) who discuss topics related to equity, justice, and inclusion for older workers.

This GSA webinar (1:00:33 minutes) presented by Dr. Heather E. Whitson (Duke University School of Medicine), Dr. Nicholas S. Reed (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), Dr. Bonnielin Swenor (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine), Dr. Frank R. Lin (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), and Dr. Alan Stevens (Baylor Scott & White Center for Applied Health Research) offers practical strategies and supporting case studies to help health-system researchers address older adults' sensory health needs, while advancing their research aims during the time of the pandemic.

This GSA webinar (1:00:24 minutes) presented by community and public health leaders and advocates in a facilitated problem-identification and problem-solving discourse about aging Native American, rural, and homeless populations with regard to challenges and effectiveness of responses to COVID-19. Presentations include: 1) Resilience: The Key to the Survival of the Nebraska Urban Indian Health Community (Dr.

Transitions commonly associated with advancing age - work disruptions, physical decline, dementia - can be better managed when a person has planned for the social support, financial means, and health resources needed to compensate for aging-related physical and cognitive changes. In this GSA webinar (59:58 minutes), Dr. Peter A. Lichtenberg (Wayne State University) and Dr. Mary D. Naylor (University of Pennsylvania) exchange ideas about the concept of longevity fitness and insights into positive aging across the life course. (Presentation begins at 1:23 minutes.)

This GSA webinar (1:00:45 minutes) presented by Dr. Patricia M. D'Antonio (Reframing Aging Initiative), Dr. Helen Fernandez (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai), and Dr. Moira O'Neill (FrameWorks Institute) highlights the importance that words matter in how society thinks and talks about aging. The webinar covers four ideas to keep in mind when talking about older people and health equity in health care settings during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Presentation begins at 7:07 minutes.)

This GSA webinar (49:16 minutes) presented by Dr. R. Gordon Douglas (Weill Cornell Medical College), Dr. David H. Canaday (Case Western Reserve University), Dr. Sherry A. Greenberg (Seton Hall University College of Nursing), and Dr.

This GSA webinar (1:00:34 minutes) presented by Dr. Jayant Pinto, Dr. Martha K. McClintock, Dr. L. Philip Schumm, and Dr. Louise Hawkley (all from the University of Chicago) describes how data from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) - a longitudinal population-based study of health and social factors that aims to understand the well-being of older, community dwelling Americans - have been used to examine the role of specific and global sensory deficits in predicting aging health outcomes such as cognitive decline and mortality.

This panel presentation (1:29:59 minutes) by Dr. Rozalyn Anderson (University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health), Dr. Brian K. Kennedy (Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine), Dr. R. Tamara Konetzka (University of Chicago), Dr. David Melzer (University of Conneticut Center on Aging), and Dr. Janko Nikolich-Zugich (Arizona Center on Aging) explores the basis for the profound skew in vulnerability to COVID-19 where older individuals are at much greater risk of succumbing to disease with much higher mortality rates than for the population at large.