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The 1999 AGS/AFAR Annual Meeting
Promoting Independence: Providing Geriatric Care Into the Next Century

MEDIA ADVISORY/INVITATION

What: The 1999 Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) and the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), the nation’s premier forum for the latest information on clinical geriatrics, research on aging, geriatrics in managed care, innovative teaching methods for geriatrics professionals, and much more.

When: May 19-23,1999

Where: Philadelphia Marriott and the Pennsylvania Convention Center

Meeting Highlights:

• What If It’s Alzheimer’s? (5/22). A public forum on how patients and caregivers can cope with the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. Free to the public, the forum is the kickoff event for the new AGS Foundation for Health in Aging (FHA).
• Alzheimer’s Disease: Emerging Trends (5/21). A special daylong symposium covering the latest research findings and the most effective pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatments.
• Fourth Annual Health Care Systems Review (5/19). Formerly called Managed Care Day, the new title reflects an expanded, daylong program on providing quality health care to older adults in various health care systems.
• Update on Long-Term-Care (5/23). Following a successful debut in 1998, this session will address oral health, urinary incontinence protocols, dehydration and disaster prevention in long-term-care settings-.
• Meet-the-Expert Sessions in which attendees discuss cutting-edge and emerging geriatrics topics with experts in small group settings. Sessions include: Accomplishing Improvements in End-o.