Symposia
- Date:
- Time: 7:30am - 8:30am
- Track: Clinical Practice, Research
- CME/CE: 1.0
- Type: In-Person
Sponsored by Cancer and Aging Special Interest Group, Research Committee, Palliative Care Special Interest Group and the Junior Research Faculty Development Special Interest Group
Moderator: Megan Huisingh-Scheetz, MD, MPH
This symposium aims to educate geriatricians and other clinicians about state-of-the-art research surrounding sensor-derived measures of vulnerability in older adults and discuss innovative methods of delivering supportive care interventions that local institutions can utilize. Learning Objectives: (1) review the relevance of geriatric syndromes to general and subspecialty care and the main challenges to implementing protocols that screen for and target frailty and functional decline; (2) identify how wearable technology data is linked to traditional assessments of fitness and morbidity in older adults; (3) develop clinically feasible methods of incorporating digital health into standard screening measures of frailty to identify vulnerable older patients with cancer at participants’ local institutions; and (4) describe how sensor-based technologies can help deliver supportive care to optimize the care of older adults with cancer.
| Frailty and Function in Older Adult Practice and the Relationship between Hip Accelerometry and Fried Frailty Criteria Nabiel Ali Mir, MBBS |
| Evaluating the Use of Wearable Technology to Monitor and Predict Physical Function Decline in Patients with Cancer Gillian Gresham, PhD |
| Toward Decentralization of Healthcare Model to Promote Outcomes and Access to Care in Older Adults Graci Finco, PhD, CPO, MS |