
Sandra Shi
@shisadoctor
Geriatrician @harvardmed, researching frailty, prognostication, and post acute care in complex, multimorbid older adults. Former @UChicagoMed, Views are my own.
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21-04-2018 23:22:45
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Congratulations to our Age Self Care team for winning the Integrated Center for Group Medical Visits 2024 Conference Best Poster Award! Louise Aronson Wren Burton MPH, DC Ariela Orkaby MD MPH UCSF Osher Center HMS Osher Center



📣New virtual #FrailtyScienceSeminar series! Innovative #Design, #Testing & #Implementation of #Frailty #Interventions Begins Weds., 10/23 9-10am EST The Surgical Pause: Update and Lessons Learned from a Randomized Trial w/@ShipraAryaMD Stanford Medicine Info: bit.ly/FrailtyScience…



eFrailty.org is helping simplify and standardize frailty assessment across tools and continents. Developed by @DaeKimMD @CheslockMegan Steph S Ariela Orkaby MD MPH Andrea Schwartz #SIOG24 SIOG Cancer and Aging Research Group (CARG) #GeriOnc

Who reviewed this paper? A few days ago Guillaume Cabanac ⟨here and elsewhere⟩ tweeted about a paper that had published a remark that it had been forced to cite irrelevant papers. You can see the tweet here: buff.ly/3UMIguf. We remarked that if it was not so serious, it would be funny. Since


Smartphone application for longitudinal home gait speed measurement in older adults with blood cancers: A feasibility and acceptability study geriatriconcology.net/article/S1879-… Clark DuMontier, MD, MPH William Dale, MD, PhD, FASCO @rochgerionc Cancer and Aging Research Group (CARG) #GeriOnc #GeriOnc #OlderAdults #OncoAlert #SIOG #YoungSIOG #Elsevier



This is where we need to start recognising and responding to frailty. In Kenneth Rockwood's native Newfoundland, this is the point at which people can no longer shovel snow off the roof - a common early warning sign that functional decline has begun #BGSconf


Physical therapy community well-represented at the The National Institute on Aging (NIA) #Beeson meeting this year! 4 current Beeson Scholars are PTs, the most ever! Cc: @mjmillerDPT, Corey Simon, and Jen Brach


What is the state of Frailty in medical specialties? As part of The National Institute on Aging (NIA) Clin-STAR Coordinating Center we review current evidence in JAGS. @KWyshamMD @NamrataRheum Adam Faye MD MS @andreashermanNY Julia Loewenthal, MD Bharati Kochar Jeremy Walston MD Global Frailty Network Sandra Shi agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg…

"Deprescribing considerations for central nervous system-active polypharmacy in patients with dementia" (JAGS 2024) - "Solutions for how to deprescribe central nervous system-active polypharmacy among older adults with dementia are urgently needed" - agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg…


Frailty integration in medical specialties: Current evidence and suggested strategies from the Clin-STAR frailty interest group | JAGS agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg… | Ariela Orkaby MD MPH @KWyshamMD @NamrataRheum Adam Faye MD MS @andreashermanNY Julia Loewenthal, MD Bharati Kochar Jeremy Walston MD





