Dr. Theresa Allison is presenting "Whole Person Approaches to Brain Health" on Thursday, June 11th at the San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living as part of the Golden Hour Series, Illuminating Ideas That Shape How We Age. 

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Utilizing her unique background as a family physician, geriatrician and ethnomusicologist, Dr. Allison will share how music, spirituality, creativity, art, and social connection can play a powerful role in supporting people living with dementia and those who care for them.

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To learn more about Dr. Allison’s research visit https://www.ncire.org/ncire-investigators

NCIRE congratulates Dr. Alexander K. Smith for his new appointment as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS).

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In this role, Dr. Smith will help guide the journal’s mission to publish high-impact research, inform clinical practice, and shape policy in geriatrics. JAGS is widely recognized as a premier forum for disseminating evidence that supports high-quality, person-centered care for aging populations.

Loneliness and social isolation are common factors at the end-of-life and can be detrimental to quality of life for older patients.

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Dr. Alexander K. Smith and his colleagues investigated the association between symptoms and end-of-life loneliness and social isolation that could help inform targeted interventions.

Their study titled, "End-of-Life Loneliness, Social Isolation, and Symptom Burden: A Nationally-Representative Study", was co- published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

Fairer weather is inviting fun in the sun, yet with brighter days comes the ever-present risk of skin damage from UVA/UVB rays.

As folks reach for their full-spectrum sunscreen, some may think the more expensive the product the better. But according to a study of consumer behavior, cheaper is the way to go.

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Dr. Maria Wei co-published the study titled “Sunscreen Costs in Association With Sun Protective Behaviors” that shows when consumers pay more, they use less and may get burned.​

Dr. Kenneth Covinsky and colleagues recently published a study in The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association, titled “Bedside cognitive screening to detect dementia and predict poor outcomes in hospitals”, demonstrating that two brief bedside cognitive screening tools can identify likely dementia in hospitalized older adults without delirium. The study also found that these screeners help stratify patients’ risk for incident delirium, hospital-associated disability, and 90-day mortality.

Dr. Michael Steinman has been a steadfast advocate for deprescribing medications that are no longer necessary of patient care or could otherwise cause harm, such as an increased risk of falls, strokes and death.

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Dr. Steinman was recently quoted in the Washington Post regarding antipsychotic overuse.