Age Self Care, a program to improve aging in place through group learning and incremental behavior change: Preliminary data.

Background: Few programs exist to support aging in place for older adults. Age Self Care is a novel program providing older adults with evidence-based information using group sessions embedded within the structure of a community-based organization (CBO) to facilitate behavior change and support aging in place. We report on a preliminary study of Age Self Care conducted in collaboration between the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Division of Geriatrics, At Home With Growing Older (AHWGO), and San Francisco Village (SF Village).

Understanding Pandemic Experiences Among America's Elders.

Older Americans' experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic, including social isolation and loneliness, generosity, and resilience, must be studied and addressed.

Covid-19: a call for mobilizing geriatric expertise.

Aim: Covid-19 is a true gerontological pandemic, with frailty, multimorbidity and geriatric syndromes being of great importance.

Finding: There has been a lack of geriatrician involvement in planning and delivery of care for older people with Covid-19 in many arenas. Lack of mobilisation of geriatric expertise has led to inconsistent policy responses and ageism.

Recommendations for Welcoming Back Nursing Home Visitors During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results of a Delphi Panel.

Objectives: Nursing homes became epicenters of COVID-19 in the spring of 2020. Due to the substantial case fatality rates within congregate settings, federal agencies recommended restrictions to family visits. Six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, these largely remain in place.

Healthy Aging Across the Stages of Old Age.

Healthy aging is among the key frontiers for twenty-first century geriatrics and gerontology. Gerontology is positioned to address not only disease, debility, frailty, and death but also patients' hopes to remain healthy and high functioning and optimize their wellness. Definitions, models, and metrics of healthy aging are increasingly dynamic and multidimensional, drawing from biomedicine, social sciences, older adults' perspectives, and geroscience.

Evaluation of a Medical Student Research and Career Development Program to Increase Diversity in Academic Medicine.

Purpose: To describe and evaluate an innovative research program supported by the National Institutes of Health, "Promoting Research Opportunities Fully-Prospective Academics Transforming Health" (PROF-PATH), designed to support medical students from groups underrepresented-in-medicine (URM) interested in pursuing academic careers.

Method: Based on social cognitive career theory (SCCT), PROF-PATH supplemented a traditional research program (TRP) by providing additional mentorship and a curriculum focused on "assumed knowledge" of academic culture, guidance with research challenges, and emotional competence. The four-year evaluation (2013-2016) consisted of pre- and postprogram surveys of PROF-PATH and TRP students, plus focus groups and individual structured interviews with PROF-PATH students.

Perspectives of low-income chronically ill patients on complex care management.

Introduction: Low-income, chronically ill adults disproportionately experience poor health outcomes despite increased health care use and costs. Complex care management (CCM) programs are an innovative approach to improving outcomes for these patients, but little is known about the patients' experiences in CCM programs in safety net primary care settings.

Method: The authors conducted semistructured interviews with 13 CCM participants in a safety net primary care clinic to explore their perceptions of their health and their experiences with CCM.

Essential steps in developing best practices to assess reflective skill: A comparison of two rubrics.

Purpose: Medical education lacks best practices for evaluating reflective writing skill. Reflection assessment rubrics include the holistic, reflection theory-based Reflection-on-Action and the analytic REFLECT developed from both reflection and narrative-medicine literatures. To help educators move toward best practices, we evaluated these rubrics to determine (1) rater requirements; (2) score comparability; and (3) response to an intervention.

Necessary steps: how health care fails older patients, and how it can be done better.

A chance meeting between an octogenarian and a geriatrician shows how the US health system focuses on medical care at the expense of older adults' well-being.