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

• Ageing and Algorithms: Navigating the Role of AI in Geriatric Medicine - Jagdeesh Singh Dhaliwal

• 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
• A case control study of geriatrician reviews in older patients presenting post falls to an emergency department - Amrina Kaur
• EarLy InTervention for the Elderly: The ELITE Model for Optimising Length of Stay and Healthcare Cost - Chong Jin Ng

• 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 - Mary Ann Kulh
• 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

Session Title: Parkinsons disease and device assisted therapies - role in geriatric patients.
Speaker: Raju George

This session will provide a comprehensive overview of Parkinson’s disease, with a focus on recognizing both motor and non-motor symptoms. Attendees will gain insight into current oral treatments and explore advanced, device-assisted therapeutic options tailored for geriatric patients. Emphasis will be placed on individualized care strategies to optimize outcomes in older adults living with Parkinson’s.

• 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
• 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
• 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)

Session Title: Current Australian "real world" clinical impact studies of Blood Based Biomarkers for AD. Speaker: Professor Christopher Rowe   Plasma pTau217 has emerged as an accurate test for Alzheimer's disease with approximately 90% accuracy, considerably higher than the 70% achieved using clinical criteria alone. This plus the relatively low cost (likely to eventually be $200-300) and the access and equity advantages, make a compelling case for inclusion in clinical practice. Either in collaboration with overseas companies or through use of existing Australian research facilities who have single molecular array (Simoa) technology, plasma pTau217 is now being evaluated for accuracy and impact in real world Australian clinical practice. The MRFF/NHMRC funded EDD study based at the Florey Institute, Melbourne is assessing diagnostic and management impact in 500 memory clinic patients and comparing to FDG and amyloid PET. The Australian Dementia Network (ADNeT) recently completed a pTau181 study in 120 memory clinic patients across sites in Sydney, Melbourne and Hobart and is now running a pilot of pTau217 with 70 GPs in Adelaide, Newcastle and Melbourne funded by the Department of Health and Aged Care. Other studies are looking at the value of plasma neurofilament light (NfL), a measure of neurodegeneration, to assist diagnosis of dementia beyond AD. The field of Blood Based Biomarkers for AD is progressing rapidly and BBB assisted diagnosis of AD is likely to be part of routine Australian clinical practice in the near future.