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Senior Citizens Have New Site Providing Medical
Information
March 22, 2005 There is a new place for senior
citizens to find information on the Web about diseases and disorders of
older adults. Aging in the Know: Your Gateway to Health and Aging
Resources on the Web is based on the professional education programs of
the American Geriatric Society.
The AGS Foundation for Health in Aging (FHA) has
just launched the free site at (www.healthinaging.org/agingintheknow).
The information from the AGS includes materials such as the Geriatrics
Review Syllabus (GRS) and Geriatrics at Your Fingertips (GAYF).
Also included in the new online resource is a "What
to Ask" series developed to help older adults and their caregivers
initiate conversations with clinicians by providing them with disease-
and condition-specific questions that they can use to guide their
healthcare discussions. The "Health Care Decisions" section of the Web
site provides information on topics such as community-based care,
hospitalization, nursing home care, palliative care and rehabilitation.
Easy-to-read printer friendly versions of all Aging in the Know
resources are available on the site.
This new site provides linkages directly from pages
organized by health topic to other credible resources on the Web such as
materials from
www.nihseniorhealth.gov, the National Institutes of Health's Web
site for seniors. David B. Reuben, MD, AGS President-Elect, lead author
for GAYF and a member of the Aging in the Know Editorial Board
commented, "This approach will make it easier for the public to obtain
the comprehensive, credible information that it needs."
Along with regularly adding new topics to Aging in
the Know, the AGS Foundation will also be adding an additional feature
to the Web site that will highlight and summarize some of the latest
research from the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS). The
goal of these summaries is to help the public better understand the
often-complicated language of modern medicine and to help keep older
adults and their caregivers updated on cutting-edge research in
geriatrics.
The AGS Foundation anticipates that Aging in the Know will be useful to
clinicians who care for older adults, their patients, and caregivers. It
provides reliable educational resources that have been vetted by leading
geriatrics health care professionals, and it will help provide the
public with the tools to become better-informed consumers of care.
Founded in 1942, the American Geriatrics Society (http://www.americangeriatrics.org)
is a nationwide, not-for-profit association of geriatrics health care
professionals dedicated to improving the health, independence and
quality of life of all older people. The Society supports this mission
through activities in clinical practice, professional and public
education, research and public policy. With an active membership of over
6,700 health care professionals, the Society has become a pivotal force
in shaping attitudes, policies and practices in geriatric medicine.
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