New Editions of AGS' Geriatrics at Your Fingertips and Geriatric Nursing Review Syllabus, Debut at Annual Meeting

The newly revised 2007-2008 print edition of Geriatrics at Your Fingertips (GAYF), and the 2nd edition of the Geriatric Nursing Review Syllabus: A Core Curriculum in Advanced Practice Geriatric Nursing (GNRS2), were released during the American Geriatrics Society's Annual Scientific Meeting in May.

The new, 9th edition of GAYF - AGS' acclaimed, compact guide to the health care needs of older adults - has been completely revised. Among other things, it includes new information based on current clinical guidelines; medications recently approved by the FDA; and the revised Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Guidance on Unnecessary Drugs in the Nursing Home, released in December 2006. Other new features include information on abdominal aortic aneurysm; dyspnea; Euthyroid Sick Syndrome; knee pain; prostatitis; communicating bad mews; and updates on treatment of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism.

During AGS' Annual Meeting, AGS member, Fred Kobylarz, MD, MPH, Associate Professor at Florida State University College of Medicine, led a Meet-the-Experts session that focused on using the new GAYF as a teaching tool.

The new edition of GNRS2 - a comprehensive text, self-assessment program and teaching resource developed by the AGS and The John A. Hartford Foundation Institute of Geriatric Nursing at New York University College of Nursing - has also been completely revised.

The new GNRS2 -- based on AGS' Geriatrics Review Syllabus: A Core Curriculum in Geriatric Medicine, 6th edition, and adapted for advanced practice geriatric nurses -- it includes 59 chapters covering recent research findings and prevailing management strategies in five broad areas: current issues in aging, approach to the patient, syndromes, psychiatry, and diseases and disorders.

Authored by more than 100 interdisciplinary experts in the care of older adults, GNRS2 includes an updated appendix with assessment instruments and practical resources -- references that allow the reader to pursue topics in greater depth -- and 100 case-oriented multiple-choice questions with answers and critiques. The GNRS2 can be used as a self-assessment program, a teaching resource or both.

For more information about the new editions of GAYF and GNRS2, visit http://www.americangeriatrics.org/products/.