
Marcia Mecca, MD
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Yale&VACT. Geriatrician. Educator. Wife&Mom. Tideswell Leader. HMI Scholar. ChangeAGEnt. VA Innovator. Complex med mgmt. Aging & homelessness. Daisy Troop 67044
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Addressing fragmentation and lack of evidence for older adults w/MCC, Patient Priorities Care is an approach that identifies patient priorities and aligns their care with what matters most.



We are hiring a post-doc at the Yale Alzheimer’s Disease Research Unit and YalePETImagingCenter. Contact me if you are interested in PET/MRI multi-modal imaging focused on synaptic density changes in #Alzheimers . Please RT. Yale School of Medicine Yale Psychiatry


Interested in learning more a/b the Patient Priorities Care approach from the people who have gone through the patient priorities identification process and implementation? Read stories from patients and clinicians involved in the PPC pilot: bit.ly/2VsdpSB Patient Priorities Care

Updated #AGSBeersCriteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults - tools & resources for #clinicians, #OlderAdults & #caregivers - for info & links: ow.ly/6shp30nGVZM #geriatrics American Geriatrics Society


In honor of International Women's Day and from the 100 Years of Women at Yale School of Medicine, the Women of Yale Geriatric Medicine.



Faculty and fellows of Geriatrics at Yale leading a clinical skills workshop for 1st year Yale School of Medicine students on geriatric assessment at Grimes Center.


.Patient Priorities Care Dr Caroline Blaum shares the work on goal-concordant care known as Patient Priorities Care — cutting edge work supported by .The John A. Hartford Foundation .The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute .RWJF .Moore Foundation


Congratulations Lauren Ferrante! You continually make Geriatrics at Yale and Yale PCCSM along with Thomas Gill & Margaret Pisani so proud. ⭐


Our PET study showing in vivo widespread #synaptic loss in #Alzheimers is out today in Alzheimer's & Dementia Alzheimer's Association Yale Psychiatry Yale School of Medicine dx.doi.org/10.1002/alz.12…


Mary Tinetti Mary Tinetti, receives the 2017 Gerontological Society of America (GSA)'s Donald P. Kent Award for leadership in gerontology bit.ly/2hP2pji 👏


Great work on perception and hallucinations by Al Powers Chris Mathys, friend of abundance @PhilCorlett1 Yale Psychiatry SISSA x.com/AlPowers7/stat…



Our work investigating #amyloid in preclinical #Alzheimers published in #NeurobiologyofAging Yale Psychiatry Yale School of Medicine sciencedirect.com/science/articl…