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10/18/2024
Vice President Proposes Medicare Expansion for Home Care
Vice President Kamala Harris has proposed expanding Medicare to cover home care for older adults needing long-term care. The proposal would provide subsidized care for those who don’t qualify for Medicaid. Currently, Medicaid funds two-thirds of home care spending in the U.S., but has waitlists of 700,000 people. The expansion could benefit 14.7 million Medicare beneficiaries and ease the burden on 105 million family caregivers. The proposal notes that similar home care proposals have been estimated to cost about $40 billion per year, prior to accounting for potential savings from reduced use of hospital and nursing facility care. The plan requires congressional approval and bipartisan support.
Applications Open: Combined Med-Geri Pathway
This application cycle is for trainees starting in July 2026. The Combined Med-Geri Pathway provides an alternative pathway for training geriatricians by integrating the clinical experiences required in a geriatrics fellowship across the internal medicine or family medicine residency and meeting geriatric competencies in an innovative four-year (48 month) program. If your program intends to apply, please email Jen Sicherman at jcross@americangeriatrics.org to request the application materials.
Upcoming Virtual Special Interest Group (SIG) Meetings
We hope you will join the many AGS Special Interest Group (SIGS) virtual meetings being held throughout the next few months. AGS SIGS are grass-roots, member-led communities focused on specific areas and topics of interest regarding care for all of us as we age. They provide a forum for members to network, discuss common topics of interest, share successes and identify potential collaborations.
Click here for the full list of AGS SIGs and upcoming SIGS Meetings this fall. AGS Members can browse events and join discussions through the SIG's online communities. Just login and click "join community" next to the community name.
The following Special Interest Group Virtual Meetings are being held next week. Be sure to add them your calendar! For a more extensive list of upcoming SIG Virtual Meetings click here.
| Special Interest Group | Date | Time (ET) | Zoom Link |
| Patient Priorities-Aligned Care for Older Adults | 10/21 | 4-5pm | https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84785789482 |
| Healthy Aging | 10/28 | 4-5pm | https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82345955147?pwd=8DEYHlltyiaCb6NvgVM7Qe5YCdCGT… |
| Junior Faculty Research Career Development | 10/31 | 1:30-2:30pm | https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88363228330 |
Attention Fellows and Junior Faculty: Apply to be a GRS Teaching Slides Author
The GRS Teaching Slides Editorial Board is seeking new Slide Authors to help update the GRS Teaching Slides. The GRS Teaching Slides consist of presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint on the topics included in the AGS Geriatrics Review Syllabus: A Core Curriculum in Geriatric Medicine.
Specific Duties:
The Slide Author’s primary responsibility will be to update assigned GRS Teaching Slides using the content from the soon-to-be released GRS12 Syllabus. Each Slide Author will be tasked with updating approximately 2-3 PowerPoint presentations and will be assigned a Section Editor who will oversee the development of the update. Work on this project will start soon and updated content drafts will be due starting in January 2025. Selected Slide Authors will be acknowledged in the final product and receive a complimentary subscription to the GRS Teaching Slides product upon publication.
Qualifications:
- Slide Authors should have strong writing skills (preferably in developing presentations)
- Interest in the topic, and willingness to review and update based on the GRS content
Application Process:
Interested individuals should submit the following:
- Curriculum Vitae
- A succinct statement of interest and relevant experience, including a list of topics of interest (see GRS11 for list of topics).
Please send your application materials to Elisha Medina-Gallagher at Egallagher@americangeriatrics.org by October 25th.
New Opportunities for Investigators & Additions to the MyAGSOnline Calendar
- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) will hold a technical assistance webinar to provide potential applicants with information about NOFO RFA-HS-24-005 on October 21, 2024, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern time.