Through the Health in Aging Foundation, we provide patient education materials for our member

Realizing a future when every older person can receive high-quality, person-centered care means working hard today to support professionals on the front-lines of practice. That’s why the AGS and our experts are committed to providing tools, resources, and recommendations for many of our field’s most pressing challenges and opportunities. Learn more below.

• Coding Primer from Geriatrics At Your Fingertips®

Through the Health in Aging Foundation, we advance our commitment to maintaining the health, independence, and quality of life of all older adults by increasing public awareness and providing access to needed resour

Developing and supporting economic and technologic health system innovation is essential to ensuring that every older American receives high-quality, coordinated, cost-effective, and person-centered care. See below for resources from the AGS and our partner organizations

The Patient-Centered Medical Home is a care delivery model in which treatment is coordinated through a primary care physician to ensure participants receive care they need when and where they need it—and in a manner they can understand.

Through the federal appropriations process, the AGS advocates on behalf of institutions that stand at the forefront of the nation’s research and training efforts related to older adult well-being.

As more and more of us look toward living longer lives, we must expand the capacity of the healthcare workforce to provide high-quality, safe, and coordinated care to older adults.

Find out more about the state of the geriatrics workforce here...

The AGS has been active in measure review and development through participation in a number of partnerships and collaborations.

Our Position

As our health system continues to shift towards reimbursing providers based on the quality rather than the quantity of care they provide, we must ensure that measures used to evaluate healthcare performance take into account the unique healthcare needs of older people, as well as the challenges providers face when promoting health, independence, and well-being in light of particularly complex care needs.

Supporting the health, independence, and well-being of us all as we age means ensuring that our health system recognizes and rewards quality services benefitting older adults. Among our many efforts in advocacy and public policy, the Society participates in the development and valuation of physician service codes and works closely with a coalition of specialty societies to improve payment accuracy to recognize new services provided by primary care and other cognitive specialties.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) improved access to health coverage for more than 20 million Americans, including older adults.

Our Position

We believe that all Americans should have access to high-quality, affordable healthcare coverage. It is essential that we maintain gains in the number of Americans who are covered by health insurance, and that we preserve elements of health reform that are important to older Americans and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries.

The AGS is committed to improving health, independence, and quality of life for us all as we age. That means helping healthcare professionals, policy makers, and the public embrace core components of high-quality, person-centered care. Learn more about where we stand on some of the field’s most important topics.

By-Laws of the American Geriatrics Society

A copy of the By-Laws is available for download here. By-Laws certified by the Society Secretary are on file at the AGS corporate offices in New York.

The AGS Board provides fiduciary oversight for the Society and works collaboratively with the CEO and staff to advance AGS priorities.  The Board is responsible for setting the strategic direction for the society, responding to emerging issues, interpreting the organization’s mission to the public, and establishing and maintaining programs relevant to the Society’s strategic vision.

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The Outstanding Junior Clinician Education Manuscript Award is targeted to clinician-educator junior faculty (Assistant Professor/Instructor) in the development stages of their careers. The junior faculty member must have first-authored an outstanding peer-reviewed clinical education journal article focused on the care of older adults. Selection of award winners will consider the article's novelty, methodological, clarity of presentation, and potential to influence education relevant to the care of older adults. 

Thank you for supporting the AGS mission to improve the health, independence and quality of life of all older people. We value your membership and want to help you get the most value out of your benefits. As an AGS member you receive over $1,500 in benefits each year.Our membership team is here to answer any questions you have about renewing your membership or accessing your benefits.

AGS volunteer leaders are vital to our efforts to ensure older adults have access to high-quality, person-centered care. Your time and expertise as a subcommittee member are among our most important and valued resources.

What are subcommittee members responsible for?

Subcommittee Members are responsible for:

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The Silverstein Memorial Award for Emerging Investigators in the Surgical and Related Medical Specialties recognizes emerging researchers across health care committed to careers in aging. Their geriatrics-focused work in surgical and other medical specialties helps to advance the unique care we all need as we age.

Our bodies change over time, and our health care needs to adapt with us. Geriatrics is the specialty focused on the high-quality, person-centered care we all need as we age. “High-quality care” aims to improve health, independence, and quality of life for older people. “Person-centered care” puts our personal values and preferences at the heart of our care decisions.

Geriatrics is leading the way when it comes to thinking about health, care, and healthcare quality differently.

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When you ask geriatrics healthcare professionals about why they chose their careers, you’ll hear them the same ideals voiced by many different clinicians: compassion, an interest in learning about people’s histories, and a desire to provide continuing care for older adults.

I get to time travel to different eras and cultures, because older people are so willing to share their life stories.

The Association of Directors of Geriatric Academic Programs (ADGAP)—a sister organization of the AGS—is committed to advancing academic geriatrics programs and supporting academic geriatrics program directors to benefit and aid patient care, research, and teaching programs in geriatric medicine within accredited medical schools located in the U.S.

As a truly interdisciplinary field, there are plenty of pathways and career options in geriatrics. Different types of healthcare professionals go through different schooling, testing, and licensing processes. Explore the categories below to find out the variety of ways you can pursue an education in geriatrics and work toward improving the health of us all as we age.

Education & Training

A geriatrician is a physician who is specifically trained to evaluate and manage the unique healthcare needs and treatment preferences of older people. Geriatricians focus on maintaining well-being and independence based on high-quality, person-centered care. They diagnose and treat conditions that may commonly occur with age.

Education & Training

Nursing roles are diverse, ranging from delivering or overseeing direct care and coordinating case management to establishing nursing practice standards, developing quality assurance procedures, and directing complex nursing care systems. Nurses specializing in geriatrics are educated to understand and treat the often complex physical and mental health needs of older people. They try to help older men and women protect health and manage changes in mental and physical abilities.

Education & Training

Geriatric pharmacy specialists are those pharmacists that have special knowledge in the care of older adults. To become a pharmacist, you must obtain a Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree.  Pharm.D. programs are typically 4 years in length and require 2-4 years of pre-requisite course material.  While curriculums may differ, didactic experiences are offered early along introductory pharmacy practice experiential learning, with the final year being dedicated to advanced pharmacy practice experiential learning.