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Home-based testing of older patients’ mobility and cognition are safe and feasible, a new Dana-Farber and Brigham and Women's Hospital study published in Blood Advances shows. Paper: fal.cn/3oWU5 Press release: fal.cn/3oWTU

Drs. DuMontier, Hshieh, Driver, et al. on virtual frailty assessment for older adults with hematologic malignancies: brighamandwomens.org/about-bwh/news…

Geriatric surgical service interventions in older emergency general surgery patients: Preliminary results agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg… Ariela Orkaby MD MPH Zara Cooper Rachelle Bernacki, MD, MS

This week the Division of Aging celebrates “What Matters to You” Day, encouraging conversations around what matters to faculty, staff and patients, and promoting the education of the 4Ms of Age Friendly Healthcare. #WMTY22 #WMTY WMTY.world Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)

Complexity of the Geriatric Patient: Q&A With Dr. Houman Javedan, and his development of the Geriatrics Clinical Reasoning curriculum brighamhealthonamission.org/2022/06/10/com…

Early on in her career, Dr. Zara Cooper, the director of the Brigham’s Center for Surgery and Public Health, aspired to become a writer. Along the way, she discovered that medicine is where she could make the biggest impact. Read about her journey here: fal.cn/3rovE

Our findings from VITAL do not support vitamin D3 or omega-3 supplements for frailty prevention. Consider deprescribing? Effect of Vitamin D3 and Omega-3 Fatty Acid Supplementation on Risk of Frailty ja.ma/3xjW3MW via JAMA Network Open part of JAMA Network Brigham and Women’s Division of Aging

Brigham researcher Ariela Orkaby MD MPH and colleagues find that vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acids are not helpful in reducing risk of frailty 🔬What's New in Research summary: bwhclinicalandresearchnews.org/2022/08/19/wha… 📜Paper in JAMA Network Open: jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

The Innovator of the Week series highlights BWH clinicians who have worked with the iHub. Each innovator will share details about their original digital projects and explain how their work inspires them. Read more here: buff.ly/3vR6jeU

Interested to learn more about the research conducted by BWH investigators? Join us at Discover Brigham Brigham and Women's Hospital on Tues., Nov 1st for an in-person poster session! All are welcome to attend and it's FREE. Learn more: tinyurl.com/eds48y4a

Excellent talk on resiliency in older pts by Laura Frain: What is it and how do we measure it? #SIOG2022

Come learn more about the research Dr. Julia Loewenthal is working on at Brigham and Women's Hospital, by joining her in-person for #DiscoverBrigham (Nov 1, 2022) to view her poster! You can also check out her abstract on the poster session website before the big event. poster.bwh.harvard.edu/julia-lowentha…

Congratulations Julia Loewenthal, MD on your fantastic work examining the role of Yoga for frailty prevention! #healthyaging #yogaworks Brigham and Women’s Division of Aging Brigham and Women’s Research

I am happy to share our systematic review "Effect of Yoga on Frailty in Older Adults"! Ariela Orkaby MD MPH Annals of Int Med Brigham and Women’s Research Brigham and Women’s Division of Aging #yoga #aging #geriatrics #mindbody acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2…

New from Brigham and Women’s Research: review of RCTs found #yoga helped to prevent frailty inactive older people, but did not offer benefit over exercises or #TaiChi: ow.ly/oPLm50NhX9O Julia Loewenthal, MD Ariela Orkaby MD MPH Brigham and Women’s Division of Aging

Brigham researchers found that yoga improves health indicators linked to reduced frailty and increased longevity in older adults. Julia Loewenthal, (Julia Loewenthal, MD) a Brigham geriatrician, spoke with the The Washington Post about their findings. washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/…

I am thrilled to be the recipient of a 4-year Geriatric Academic Career Award (GACA) through HRSA! Thank you for the opportunity!! American Geriatrics Society Brigham and Women’s Division of Aging Brigham and Women’s Research #meded

Great talk ⁦Julia Loewenthal, MD⁩ and Andrea Schwartz #AGS2023 standing room only!

@DaeKimMD presenting the actualization of his long-term vision of integrating frailty into research and clinical practice. A standing ovation for the #AGS23 Yoshikawa-awardee and an exemplification of expertise, rigorous work, and passion.

Such an important contribution to the frailty literature with real potential to improve communication across clinical care of older adults: use the frailty tool most convenient and this data to crosswalk to other scores. Congratulations Steph S @DaeKimMD and colleagues!