AGS Guidelines, Recommendations, & Position Statements

AGS guidelines, recommendations, and position statements are always free to AGS members and available to the wider community of geriatrics healthcare professionals

American Geriatrics Society Position Statement: Advancing the Healthcare of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and More Older Adults
Alternative Treatments to Selected Medications in the 2023 American Geriatrics Society Beers Criteria^®
AGS position statement: Telehealth Policy for Older Adults
Managing Hypercholesterolemia in Adults Older Than 75 years Without a History of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease: An Expert Clinical Consensus
AGS position statement: Making medical treatment decisions for unrepresented older adults
AGS Beers Criteria For Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use In Older Adults
Full List of AGS Guidelines, Recommendations, & Position Statements

AGS Criteria for Endorsement, Affirmation of Value, or Supporting Organization

These Criteria provide a framework for review of documents for AGS endorsement, affirmation of value, or designating AGS as a Supporting Organization. Review of documents is individualized and AGS will take into account external factors (e.g., document addresses an issue that is a long-standing AGS priority; or AGS has collaborated on other projects and programs with an organization or with experts leading the work).

Request Outcome	Stipulations
Endorsement	AGS supports the general principles in the document and believes it is of general benefit to its membership. The document was commissioned by an organization (not a group of individuals) Sponsoring organization has given AGS adequate time (4 weeks) for consideration by relevant committees and member experts to provide comments on a draft of the document. Sponsoring organization has given AGS adequate time (2-4 weeks) for consideration by Execs and relevant committees to provide endorsement on the final draft of the document. Author COI will be published in the final document. An assigned AGS representative on the writing group is preferred.
Affirmation of Value	Document either does NOT meet the endorsement criteria listed above or AGS cannot endorse all the content; however it does meet ALL of the following criteria: AGS supports the general principles in the document and believes it is of general benefit to its membership. The document was commissioned by an organization (not a group of individuals). Author COI will be published in the final document Sponsoring organization has given AGS adequate time (4 weeks) for consideration by Execs and relevant committees. The document does not contradict current AGS policy documents. For affirmation of value, the following language can be included on the first page of the document: “AGS affirms the value of this document” with a footnote that defines affirmation as follows: “AGS supports the general principles in the document and believes it is of general benefit to its membership.”
Supporting Organization	This designation may be provided for the following reasons: AGS has been engaged as a stakeholder or supporting organization in the development of the document. The document addresses a long-standing AGS priority and where AGS has collaborated with lead organizations or individual experts leading the work. Supporting Organization typically means that AGS supports the general principals in the document but has not endorsed or provided an affirmation of value. Recognizing that organizations list supporting organizations in different ways, AGS requires that organizations seek written approval for how its name will appear in the document.

For more information or to request AGS participation in a document development, email: info@americangeriatris.org with the subject line: “Document for AGS consideration.”