Emergency Physician Honored for Research to Combat Abuse of Older Adults

The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) and the AGS Health in Aging Foundation have announced that Weill Cornell Medicine Professor Tony Rosen will get the 2018 Jeffrey H. Silverstein Memorial Award for Emerging Investigators in the Surgical and Related Medical Specialties, to be presented at the AGS 2018 Annual Scientific Meeting, reports EurekaAlert . Rosen is being honored for his review of more than 100 programs to address the abuse of seniors. Rosen determined most programs focus on raising awareness and public education and developing inter-professional healthcare teams to handle the challenges of physical, social, emotional, financial, and sexual abuse. Rosen's team observed that although many programs hold promise for helping resource-constrained communities, just 2 percent used high-quality study designs. "Expanding access to the care we all need as we age means forging new in-roads for geriatrics across all healthcare specialties," says AGS Board Chair Ellen Flaherty. "As an emergency medicine physician with an interest in older adult care, Dr. Rosen's career — and his expertise — help to exemplify that need, and how we hope to meet those needs at the AGS."