Wednesday, 11th June Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting 2025

Sessions are available to view via livestream, in the parents room

• Medical AI in the Care of Older Adults - Amandeep Hansra

• Conversation about the ethics of restrictive practices in dementia care - Sarah Baldwin and Robyn McCarthy

• Urology in Older Adults - Lewis Chan

Welcome to Country

Presidents Welcome
Dr Rob O'Sullivan

• SveDem and how to improve quality of dementia care in specialist clinics, primary care and nursing homes - Maria Eriksdotter

• Medium-Term Outcomes of Inpatient Geriatric Evaluation and Management - Edward Adi Pranoto
• Prospective observational study on current practices of management of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) in an outer-metropolitan acute geriatric unit.  - Nicholas K Bieputra
• Statin Therapy in Patients Over the Age of 90 - Amy Carpenter
• To investigate the qualitative and quantitative impact of a Hospital in the Home review on patients returning to their RACF following a Hospital admission. - James Carroll
• Prevalence of advance care directives and factors associated with awareness of advance care planning among elderly Chinese in New South Wales Australia - Qiuwen Chong
• Comparison of patients admitted to home-based and hospital-based geriatric rehabilitation programs. - Eugene D'Souza
• Observational study of nutritional status and management of malnutrition in inpatients with hip fractures  - Rebecca Davis
• Potentially inappropriate prescribing and anticholinergic burden in a population of community dwelling older adults undergoing in-home rehabilitation - Thomas Erskine
• Does the incidence of adverse events vary with different intramuscular antipsychotic medications used for elderly patients with acute agitation? - Marina Hayashi
• Identifying and Deprescribing Falls Risk Increasing Drugs (FRIDs) in patients experiencing hip fracture- A quality improvement project. - Sumaiya Homyra
• Factors predicting unplanned hospital representations for elderly residents from aged care facilities after acute stroke.    - Kosar Hussain
• Improving Access to Geriatric Evaluation and Management (GEM) service in Rural Victoria. - Evon Jude
• A case control study of geriatrician reviews in older patients presenting post falls to an emergency department - Amrina Kaur

• Perspectives of Heads of Public Geriatric Medicine Departments on Current and Future Services in Australia and New Zealand: A Qualitative Study   - Eleni Azarias
• Regional glucose hypometabolism demonstrated on FDG-PET imaging is dynamic in delirium superimposed on dementia - Aaron Johnson
• Establishment of a peer support network for researchers and clinicians with an interest in frailty - Benignus Logan
• Retrospective Multi-centre Cohort Study of Polypharmacy and its Association with Outcomes in Older Surgical Inpatients - Bonnie M Liu
• A prototype rapid tool to enhance detection of dementia for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in primary care - Huong X. T. Nguyen
• Gender differences in quality of life of older Australians and potential therapeutic targets - Issada Trakarnwijitr

• Physician and caregiver attitudes towards anti-psychotics in the treatment of behavioural and psychiatric symptoms of dementia - Joshua Chen
• Diagnostic Accuracy of the Thai 3D-CAM and the Prognostic Value of Its Severity Score in Hospitalised Older Adults - Pimrapee Tengtanakit
• Prevalence timing and characteristics of delirium preceding Dementia with Lewy bodies a retrospective case series - Janice Taylor
• Factors Associated with a Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Dementia at a Later Stage: A Cross-sectional Analysis of the Australian Dementia Network Registry - Rowan Abdelwahab
• Effect of introducing an antipsychotic deprescribing educational intervention targeting staff managing hospital inpatients with dementia - Tiffany Wang
• Profiling of risk factors and precipitants of delirium in regional Australian Hospital acute care – findings from augmented Australian Hospital Elder Life Program. - Ye Htun Dr Naing

• Improving access to dementia rehabilitation using a co-design approach - Marianne Piano
• Transforming dementia care: carer-led solutions for people experiencing severe to extreme BPSD in the ACT - Tania Dufty
• Upscaling dementia care volunteer training: Partnerships and perseverance in the face of challenges are key - Katrina Anderson
• Adapting an Effective Mobility Program for Different Clinical Contexts: A Stakeholder-Driven Approach - Melody Cheuk Yin Leung
• Building health professions student capacity in residential aged care using codesign - Simon Grof
• Two Brains are Better than One: The Utility of an Innovative Shared Care Neurosurgery Geriatric Service - Digvijay Khangarot

• The evolution of a national clinical quality registry for mild cognitive impairment and dementia: The Australian Dementia Network (ADNeT) Registry  - Stephanie Ward
• Electronic Health Record (EHR)-based prediction models in dementia: are they fit for purpose? - Alicia Lu
• Rapid amyloid clearance and efficacy: Results from TRAILBLAZER-ALZ 2, a phase 3 study of donanemab for treatment of early Alzheimer's disease - Chrys Pulle
• TRAILBLAZER-ALZ 6 Primary Outcome: Modified titration of donanemab reduces ARIA-E risk and maintains amyloid reduction - Paul Yates
• The prodromal presentation of dementia with Lewy bodies: experience from an Australian cohort study - Paula M Loveland
• Blood biomarkers of inflammation and neurodegeneration in dementia with Lewy bodies compared to matched controls - Paula M Loveland

• Tau deposition in dementia with Lewy bodies: A multimodal clinical and imaging study  - Kai Sin Chin
• Temporalis muscle thickness as a radiological biomarker for sarcopenia in healthy older adults - Paul Yates
• Comparison of outcomes of a multidisciplinary home-based rehabilitation program to inpatient general medicine and geriatric evaluation units - Susan Zhang
• Longitudinal clinical outcomes and blood biomarkers of inflammation and neurodegeneration in dementia with Lewy bodies: an Australian cohort study - Paula M Loveland
• Carer distress among community living older adults with complex needs in the pre and post Covid-19 era:a national population study - Hamish A Jamieson
• Enhancing Advance Care Planning in Geriatric Medical Wards (GRACP) - Kim San Lim
• Prevalence, characteristics, and symptom burden of patients with dementia in an inpatient palliative care unit setting - Katherine Mackinnon
• The Utility of Cardiac Monitoring on Aged Care Wards - Shehane Mahendran
• Informed consent for the use of psychotropic medications in older people with cognitive impairment: Retrospective chart audit at a tertiary Australian hospital - Nimanthi Malawaraarachchi
• Review of the use of the 4AT score in older patients presenting to the Emergency department of a tertiary hospital in Australia. - Arun Mathew Francis
• Association between Clinical Frailty Scale and length of stay in older and younger adults admitted to General Medicine    - Julia E McFarlane
• A contemporary snapshot of heart failure reporting and management in acute aged care: a sub-study of the western Sydney clinical frailty registry   - Fathima Youzra Mohamed Saleem
• Association between handgrip strength (HGS) and Ontario Modified Stratify Sydney Scoring (OMS-SS) in predicting risk of falls in acute geriatric inpatients – A pilot study.   - Krishn Narayan
• Multimodal Prehabilitation For Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer Surgery Patients at Sir Charles Gairdner Osborne Park Health Care Group: Standardisation Of Pathways, Assessment Of Feasibility And Evaluation Of Service - Yang Jian Ong
• Interventions following a comprehensive geriatric assessment in preoperative elective thoracic surgical patients. - Hashini Premachandra
• Association of untreated moderate preoperative anaemia on length of stay in older hip fracture patients: A retrospective observational study. - Nivya Ravindran
• Management of the acute phase response (APR) following IV bisphosphate infusions for osteoporosis – Assessing clinician prescribing practices for prophylaxis and treatment of APRs - Stephen Sweeney
• Predictors of transfer to specialty teams among older patients from a short-stay acute medical unit - Li Xian Tan
• Assessing the impact of being on a direct oral anticogulant (DOAC) in older adults undergoing surgery for a fractured neck of femur.  - Rebecca Tull
• Parenteral psychotropic use in hospitalised patients over 75 years with dementia - Jessica Young
• Incidence, management and outcomes of delirium in elderly COVID inpatients in a tertiary academic Sydney Hospital. - Jan JZ Zhang
• Virtually Integrated Regional Geriatric Outcomes (VIRGO) - Hannah Brownstein
• Can geriatrician led front door frailty services deliver the same improvements to care in a setting with limited resources? - David Carroll
• Medicinal cannabis in older patients,panacea or just cool? - Peter Gonski
• Geriatric Care Australia’s Journey in Community Geriatric Medicine - Desmond Graham
• Factors affecting Oral Nutritional Supplement (ONS) uptake and utilising visual aid as an intervention to increase ONS uptake in older adults admitted to Singapore Tertiary hospital. - Sri Karpageshwary K
• Discharge Care Quality on Transition from Hospital to Residential Aged Care after Hip Fracture:  Next-of-kin and Staff Responses - Mui Kin Dr Kok
• The good, the bad and the…. hamburgers:  Reflections on the first year of Hart Cottage, Horsley - Clair Langford
• The Purple Wrist Tag- Its journey in a teaching hospital in Singapore in preventing elopement, provision of better care in reducing reducing restraint use and incident delirium among the elderly inpatients - sophie SSH Khoo
• Embracing Healthcare Digitization – Change Behaviour - Xiang Loh
• GEDI or Jedi? Protecting older patients from hospital harm - Jessica Manzoni
• Minimising the Use of Chemical Restrictive Practices in Residential Aged Care - Christopher N Middlemiss
• Strength Together: Risk and protective factors for dementia and cognitive impairment in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples - Huong X. T. Nguyen
• Exploring dementia risk profiling and stratification tools for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples using population data - Huong X. T. Nguyen
• Streamlining Geriatric Care: Enhancing Rehabilitation Pathways with an Alternative Workforce in Aged Care - Christopher Owens
• Dementia: A New Hope- Casting Light on a Challenging Disease - George Razay
• Balance and Gait Disorders in Memory Clinic Population: A Prospective Observational Cross-sectional Study - George Razay
• Falls in older adults: collaboration for greater impact - Cathie Sherrington
• Person-centered model to improve patients' oral intake - Louis Tee
• Effect of introducing an antipsychotic deprescribing educational intervention targeting staff managing hospital inpatients with dementia - Tiffany Wang
• Is geriatric evaluation management and rehabilitation hospital in the home the next frontier - Lillian L Wong
• A Process and Outcomes Evaluation Study of an Integrated Multidisciplinary Proactive Risk Identification and Navigation Team (IMPRINT) Initiative - Pan-Kar C Wong

• Non-Medical Areas of Dementia Management - Susan Kurrle
• Geriatrician’s Approach To Targeting Undernutrition - Renuka Visvanathan

• Quality and Content of Outpatient Memory Clinic Letters at a Tertiary Hospital - Scott Wrigley
• First hospitalised falls among people living with dementia: risk factors and outcomes - Tiarne Allen
• To Know Me is to understand me: Digital life stories in residential dementia care - Katrina Anderson
• Gender Differences in Anger Expression - Amanda S Barusch
• Stakeholder perspectives on the clinical utility of interRAI data. - Katherine Bloomfield
• Factors influencing change in frailty status in retirement village residents. - Katherine Bloomfield
• Reducing the gaps in care of older people through audit - Chris Bollen
• Barriers to frailty screening in general practice - Chris Bollen
• Falls pro forma improves inpatient post fall assessments: an Australian retrospective cohort study - Ella V Brockwell-Mole
• Co-administration of the adjuvanted respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) prefusion F protein vaccine (RSVPreF3 OA) with the adjuvanted recombinant zoster vaccine (RZV) in adults ≥50 years of age - Karen Budd
• The Residential Care Evaluation and Support Pathway for Optimising Needs in Delirium (RESPOND) 12-month implementation - Anvi Butala
• Models of Care and Service Pathways for Young Onset Dementia: Findings of the Joint Solutions Project - Nathan M D'Cunha
• Evaluating the potential use and impact of blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) on clinician diagnostic confidence and management in Primary Care.  - Stephanie Daly
• Brown bag medication review (BBMR) teaching session for medical students to improve confidence in managing medications for older adults - Karishma Deo
• Uptake of blood-based dementia biomarker testing in a culturally and linguistically diverse memory clinic: a cohort study - Jian Xiang Ding

• Driving and Dementia - Joan M O'Donnell
• The health of older First Nations people:  A community perspective - Dina LoGiudice and Rhiann Sue See
• Supporting Health for Older Māori Inpatients - Oliver Menzies

New Curriculum Presentation (30 mins)

Q&A (30 mins)