In an effort to clearly define the role of a geriatrician and establish best practices for the treatment of geriatric patients, Houman Javedan, MD, clinical director for the Division of Aging, developed a Geriatrics Clinical Reasoning curriculum that has completely transformed geriatric care at the Brigham.

The Brigham’s Vadim N. Gladyshev, PhD, and colleagues have developed an epigenetic clock that allows predictions of biological age at the single-cell level, pointing to a new direction of aging research with applications for somatic, germline and cancer cells.

Lisa Cooper, MD, and Houman Javedan, MD, of the Division of Aging at the Brigham, and colleagues have adapted the comprehensive geriatric assessment (FI-CGA) tool to be feasible for use by geriatricians to communicate complex geriatric concepts with multiple other clinics at the Brigham that care for older adults.

While clinicians have several tools at their disposal to determine whether patients are delirious, researchers at the Brigham are going a step further by focusing on the severity of delirium. Geriatrician Tammy T. Hshieh, MD, MPH, discusses a more nuanced delirium rating tool featured in a recently published study.